Dr Amy Pollard

Dr Amy Pollard is the Founder and Director of Mental Health Collective. She is a social scientist, facilitator and policy analyst. Amy has worked as an Advisor to the UK government and CQC on empowerment and accountability, and was Chair of the Independent Mental Health Act Review topic group on patient dignity and safety. 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. She has wide-ranging lived experience of mental health difficulties, including being detained under the Mental Health Act. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).