Linda Seymour (BA, MA, FRSA)

Career history

Linda is Head of Policy at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH) and was appointed to that position in June 2006. Previously (2002 - 2006) she was Policy and Research Development Manager at mentality @ the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.

As Head of Policy she develops and manages the policy function within SCMH and works with the staff team providing analysis and support to the organisation about mental health policy and other public policies as they affect the lives of and services for people with mental health problems.

For more than twenty years Linda has worked extensively in health promotion and public health. She was a member of the national research team (1994-99) evaluating the Health Education Authority’s Health at Work in the NHS programme. She is an experienced trainer and worked for five years with the Public Health Resource Unit (PHRU) at Oxford Health Authority delivering workshops on critical appraisal skills, assessing the rigour and reliability of quantitative and qualitative research.

She has previously served as a Board level Director in the NHS, at a health authority (East Sussex Health Authority, 1993-96); at South Downs Health NHS Trust (1998-2002); and at Sussex Partnership NHS Trust (2007).

She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow on the Research Committee of the British Occupational Health Research Foundation, part of the Faculty of Occupational Health Medicine.