Responsibilities: |
- Leading SDC, to achieve its objectives
- Influencing policy and practice to improve mental health
- Project Lead for SUPPORT
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Areas of Expertise/Interest: |
- Public mental health in Scotland and in Europe
- Building capacity and supporting mainstream sectors to maximise mental health gains
- Tackling mental health inequalities and injustice
- Using evaluation and action research as tools for change in policy and practice
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Background: |
- Founded SDC in 1997, with others
- Developed and previously led SDC’s research and evaluation programme
- Active involvement in setting up of Scottish Recovery Network (Chair of the SRN Management Group)
- Has worked in social policy and social research relating to mental health since 1984
- PhD (Edinburgh) in Employment and Rehabilitation in Mental Health
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Contact Details: |
allyson@sdcmh.org.uk
+44 131 555 5959
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