I was delighted to be invited in July to contribute to the Power to Persuade blog, outlining some of the background context and challenges in my PhD research – on mental health police contact deaths.
Power to Persuade is an Australian based platform to discussion social policy – they describe themselves as “social policy whisperers”, which I think is a great description.
You can read my post here and the wider blog really is worth checking out.
Awarded the President’s Medal, by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Winner of the Mind Digital Media Award
All opinions expressed are my own – they do not represent the views of any organisation.
(c) Michael Brown, 2025
I am not a police officer.
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