Julie Repper is Recovery Lead in Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust, supporting the development and evaluation of Recovery focused services; Associate Professor of Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham leading the MSc Recovery and providing supervision for post-doc students focusing on Recovery; Service User Engagement Fellow for East midlands and chair of the National Carer Research group (FACTOR); a core consultant on the ImROC project ('Implementing Recovery in Organisational Contexts') in England, and on the Genio funded ARI (Advancing Recovery in Ireland) project in the Republic of Ireland.

Julie works collaboratively with people who have lived experience to develop innovative training, research and service developments and is currently Director of the Nottingham Recovery Education Centre and course leader for the Certificate in Advanced Peer Practice at Nottingham University - the first accredditted course in peer support in the UK. She has written widely around Recovery including (with Rachel Perkins): Social Inclusion and Recovery. A Model for Mental Health Practice (2003) Edinburgh, Bailliere Tindall and several ImROC papers including briefings on Recovery colleges, Families and Recovery and Peer Worker posts.Julie Repper is Recovery Lead in Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust, supporting the development and evaluation of Recovery focused services; Associate Professor of Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham leading the MSc Recovery and providing supervision for post-doc students focusing on Recovery; Service User Engagement Fellow for East midlands and chair of the National Carer Research group (FACTOR); a core consultant on the ImROC project ('Implementing Recovery in Organisational Contexts') in England, and on the Genio funded ARI (Advancing Recovery in Ireland) project in the Republic of Ireland.

Julie works collaboratively with people who have lived experience to develop innovative training, research and service developments and is currently Director of the Nottingham Recovery Education Centre and course leader for the Certificate in Advanced Peer Practice at Nottingham University - the first accredditted course in peer support in the UK. She has written widely around Recovery including (with Rachel Perkins): Social Inclusion and Recovery. A Model for Mental Health Practice (2003) Edinburgh, Bailliere Tindall and several ImROC papers including briefings on Recovery colleges, Families and Recovery and Peer Worker posts.