International Health Humanities Network Membership

Amy is the Founder and Director of the Mental Health Collective (www.mentalhealthcollective.org.uk), which is the hub for unlocking the potential of social and collective approaches to mental health.  She is a social scientist, facilitator and policy analyst.

Her PhD (University of Cambridge 2009) focused on a new way of understanding power, and her research has featured on reading lists at the University of Cambridge, LSE and King's College London.  Her policy work sparked a major international campaign and led to a £1.4m investment by the UK government.

She has worked as an Advisor to the UK government, in senior leadership roles in charities and for a number of mental health organisations.  She has provided training for over 300 policy makers and co-edits a series of books on Reflective Teaching (Bloomsbury Press).

She has a first class BA Hons and MA SAR in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge and was awarded the Richards Prize for outstanding academic achievement.