Rebecca Hardwick

Academic profile

Dr Rebecca Hardwick

NIHR South West Peninsula ARC (PenARC) Senior Research Fellow (Mental Health)
Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Rebecca's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 06: SDG 6 - Clean Water and SanitationGoal 10: SDG 10 - Reduced InequalitiesGoal 11: SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Rebecca

Rebecca is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research. She is co-lead of the National Institute for Health and Care Research South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaborative (PenARC) Mental Health Research Initiative. Which has to be one of the longest job titles ever. Put simply - her work is centered on doing applied mental health research that matters to the people and places of the South West of England.  

Prior to academia, Rebecca worked in policy implementation, public health, mental health voluntary sector and the mental health survivor movement. 

She is experienced in realist methodology and undertook at post-doctoral post at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, Australia with Professor Gill Westhorp working on realist evaluations of international development programmes and domestic social and welfare projects.  

She did her PhD at the University of Exeter, an enthnographic study of research and knowledge use in UK mental health third sector organisations. 

She currently supervises two students, one at CDU and one at the University of Plymouth.  

Contact Rebecca

+44 1752 585723