Dr Christina Wilkins
Christina Wilkins is a researcher in film, literature and television and focuses on questions of identity, mental illness and adaptation based at the University of Birmingham. She is most recently the author of Authenticity and Adaptation (2025) and the forthcoming book, Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture (2026). She is the director of the B-Film Research Cluster at Birmingham, and Co-Chair of the Association for Adaptation Studies.
Dr Rebecca Wynter
Rebecca Wynter is a Researcher in Health Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and Honorary Research Fellow in Person-Centred Research at the University of Birmingham. She is a historian of medicine, psychiatry and mental health, predominantly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She focuses on institutional experiences at asylums, colonies, mental hospitals, and universities. Her current research projects include how the police have interacted with people in crisis in London (since the 1890s) and Amsterdam (since 1945); and (with Len Smith) the role of women in the private asylum business between c.1600 and 1890.
Dr Cheryl McGeachan
Cheryl is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. Her work centres of exploring the lived worlds of mental ill-health in historical and contemporary contexts. She works with a range of collaborators from experts by experience to curators and storytellers in order to co-create stories that illuminate the lived worlds of mental ill-health. She is currently the Director of the Creative Impact Lab at the University of Glasgow and is interested in exploring issues of practice that support the undertaking of worldly work.