Ben Hannigan is Reader in Mental Health Nursing in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University. He uses ideas and methods from across the health and social sciences to study mental health systems, and has researched and written in these interrelated areas: policy; service organisation and delivery; work, roles and values; the characteristics and wellbeing of the workforce; practitioner education; and user and carer experiences. Ben is an active, founding, member of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK. He was winner of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales Research in Nursing Award in 2015, and joined the Health and Care Research Wales Social Care Research Award Funding Board in 2016. He is an experienced editorial board member and peer reviewer for both journals and research funding bodies. Ben’s workplace website is at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/39197-hannigan-ben, and a list of his publications can be found at http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6721. His personal blog is at https://benhannigan.com/, and he tweets via @benhannigan