Researcher Myra Piat and her colleagues, Sonia Coté, Senior Manager at the Douglas, Catherine Briand, Junior Researcher at l'Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine and Professor at the University of Montreal, and Janina Komaroff, Douglas volunteer went to the United Kingdom. The ten day trip, April 10-21, 2010, included visits to many of England's top mental health and recovery hot spots. The group planed to source ideas and exchange insights on recovery, employment and housing for people living with mental illness.

They wrote a blog during their visit, available at http://recovery-trip-uk.blogspot.com/

In 2008, another Douglas researcher, Eric Latimer, PhD, spent a year in England and wrote a blog on  mental health services there.