Jonathan Simpson is based in the Centre for Mental Health Policy and Evaluation and is a Research Assistant on the Advance Choice Documents Implementation (ACDI) project. This project aims to address the research-to-practice implementation gap for Advance Choice Documents, in order to reduce Mental Health Act detention rates and racial inequalities in care access, experience and outcomes, across CAMHS, general adults, forensics and Older Adults services.

Prior and alongside this post, Jonathan has worked on other projects in the Centre. This includes the Advance Statements for Black African and Caribbean people (AdStAC) study, which co-developed and tested Advance Choice Document resources for Black people with experience of detention under the Mental Health Act; the Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing (RECOLLECT) 2 study, which explored how Recovery Colleges benefit the people who attend them as well as their cost-effectiveness; and updating the Implementation Science Research Development (ImpRes) tool, which is a resource that aims to support researchers involved in designing and conducting implementation research.

Research interests

• Social determinants of mental health
• Participatory research approaches
• Mental health and wellbeing education
• Mental health equity
• Mental health policy