Dr Tania Gergel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine, KCL, and a philosopher with expertise in Philosophy of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Ethics and Law. Special areas of interest include: phenomenological and qualitative research; advance decision-making and decision making-capacity; the ethics of coercion and leverage within psychiatry; personhood and mental disorder; integrating lived experience into research; and, stigma. Her main role within MHJ is as Co-lead on all aspects of workstream 3. She also contributes widely across the research network within the MHJ Academic Management Group, as Co-chair of the Service User Advisory Group, and as Editor of the Mental Health and Justice Special Issue.