My current position is Professor and Discipline Lead in Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University. I am also an honorary principal research fellow in the Centre for Mental Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne, leading the Recovery and Social Justice Unit. I graduated with a master’s in Policy and Law from La Trobe University in 1995 and a PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2009. My PhD focused on good practice with people on Community Treatment Orders, and I have been involved in local and international collaborations regarding mental health law and its implications for policy, law reform, and direct practice. I was a member of the expert advisory group that reviewed the Victorian Mental Health Act, 1986. I am a current sessional community member of the Victorian Mental Health Tribunal, and I was reappointed in April 2018.