Rebecca is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research. She is co-lead of the National Institute for Health and Care Research South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaborative (PenARC) Mental Health Research Initiative. Which has to be one of the longest job titles ever. Put simply - her work is centered on doing applied mental health research that matters to the people and places of the South West of England.  

Prior to academia, Rebecca worked in policy implementation, public health, mental health voluntary sector and the mental health survivor movement. 

She is experienced in realist methodology and undertook at post-doctoral post at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, Australia with Professor Gill Westhorp working on realist evaluations of international development programmes and domestic social and welfare projects.  

She did her PhD at the University of Exeter, an enthnographic study of research and knowledge use in UK mental health third sector organisations. 

She currently supervises two students, one at CDU and one at the University of Plymouth.