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The core team is entirely composed of people with lived experience.

The Commission is led by Laura E. Fischer from Traumascapes and Angie Sweeney from the Service User Research Enterprise at King's College London, who are both survivor researchers.

To ensure a breadth of perspectives, the Commission is steered by a Lived Experience Advisory Board. We are also joined by a survivor artist-researcher, Sullivan Holderbach, and two survivor research coordinators, Lou Robbin and Dylan Reddish, from Traumascapes.

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Traumascapes is a survivor-led organisation dedicated to changing the ecosystem of trauma and creating new horizons for survivors through art and science. We exist to comprehensively respond to trauma and mental distress, address their determinants, support survivors, and protect people’s rights to safety, freedom, and joy. We combine lived experience, art, and science into six workstreams: research, consultancy, education, advocacy, community, and healing. Key focuses of our work include survivor-led research, lived experience involvement, trauma-sensitive practice, creative methods, arts-based interventions, and public engagement.

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Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at King’s College London is a unique academic research group comprised of researchers with direct experience of neurodiversity, trauma violence and abuse, mental distress, and/or (ref)using mental health services. We conduct research from the perspectives of first-person experiences, developing novel and robust methods and ethical approaches to do so. We teach and support new generations of survivor researchers who are themselves shaping what survivor research is. We also work with a range of groups and organisations to develop survivor-led research activities in the community, academia and the NHS.