Archives: Speakers

Andy Bell

Andy has been with Centre for Mental Health since 2002 and became Chief Executive in January 2023. He has worked for more than 25 years in the voluntary sector, striving for equality and social justice through research, communicating evidence, influencing policy, and informing debate. Andy was the driving force behind the Commission for Equality in… Read more »

Dr Jacqui Dyer MBE

Dr Jacqui Dyer MBE was educated at London universities, where she completed post graduate research in decision-making within children’s’ social care services. Currently an independent health and social care consultant with a background in adult mental health commissioning as well as community and family social work, Jacqui has worked with a wide range of vulnerable… Read more »

Raf Hamaizia

Raf Hamaizia is a leading mental health and social inclusion expert within the United Kingdom, with a track record in engagement, policy, quality improvement, campaigning and organisational culture change. As an Expert by Experience Raf uses his perspective as a former service user, to aid his professional and academic experience within a variety of organisations… Read more »

Hannah Chamberlain

Hannah Chamberlain, the CEO of Design in Mental Health Network, is a long standing member of the DIMHN community. From 2012 – 15 she was a member of the organising group, speaking at the conference, shortlisting awards, and introducing lived experience speakers to the Network and the conference audience. She has a background as an… Read more »

Professor Steven Brown

Steven Brown is Professor of Health and Organizational Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. He researches service user experiences of secure care settings and the psychosocial dimensions of remembering and distress. He is the co-author of Vital Memory and Affect (2015); Psychology Without Foundations (2009) and The Social Psychology of Experience (2005).

Professor Paula Reavey

Professor Reavey’s research is concerned with the relationship between psychological processes (namely memory, emotion, mental health), cultural practice and environments. For the past 20 years, she has conducted research in a variety of inpatient and community mental health settings, across general and secure psychiatric environments, and has worked as part of interdisciplinary research and clinical… Read more »