Experience

Sporting Memories

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Facilitator

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Using the rich history of sport, our groups (in Tiverton and Exeter) encourage older men to come together and reminisce about playing or watching sport. The groups foster wellbeing and promote recovery & rehabilitation from mental and physical health problems.



Ali Haggett Kinesiologist

• Kinesiologist

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Tiverton, England, United Kingdom Touch for Health Kinesiology practitioner & instructor



Conscience VC

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 700 & Above Employee

• Freelance Writer

  • Sep 2018 - Jun 2022

  Devon I recently decided to move out of academia to pursue independent research and writing in mental health and wellbeing. My field of interest has been in the history of gender and mental health and I have worked most recently on raising the profile of men's mental illness and campaigning for suicide reduction. Having spent ten years collaborating with organisations outside the academy, my interests now focus on using my research and skills in the community to foster positive mental health and… Show more I recently decided to move out of academia to pursue independent research and writing in mental health and wellbeing. My field of interest has been in the history of gender and mental health and I have worked most recently on raising the profile of men's mental illness and campaigning for suicide reduction. Having spent ten years collaborating with organisations outside the academy, my interests now focus on using my research and skills in the community to foster positive mental health and wellbeing. Show less



University of Exeter

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow (Wellcome)

  • Jan 2008 - Oct 2018

  I am a medical historian and my interests are in the history of psychiatry and mental illness during the twentieth century. I have recently completed a history of male anxiety and depression between 1950 - 1980 (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2015). I am now working on a 5 year research project investigating the history of the notion of 'balance' in mental health and wellbeing at the University of… Show more I am a medical historian and my interests are in the history of psychiatry and mental illness during the twentieth century. I have recently completed a history of male anxiety and depression between 1950 - 1980 (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2015). I am now working on a 5 year research project investigating the history of the notion of 'balance' in mental health and wellbeing at the University of Exeter. http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/research/centres/medicalhistory/projects/balance/ Show less



History of Psychiatry Journal

• Book Reviews Editor

  • Aug 2017 - Sep 2018

  Identifying the most recent literature in the field, sourcing reviewers for appropriate books, overseeing the editing process.