- Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research
- Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance
- Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems
- Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local'
- Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces