Rachel Rowan Olive is an autistic survivor
researcher, LISS Doctoral Training Partnership student and
research assistant with KCL’s Qualitative Applied Health
Research Centre, as well an associate member of the Service
User Research Enterprise. She has an MA in Applied
Linguistics and Communication. Her research and teaching
interests span mental health and neurodiversity but typically share a focus on harm, ethics, and power in health services
and health research; and/or survivor / lived experience
communities. She also makes art and zines about disability and politics, and features in the Wellcome Exhibition Zines forever! DIY
publishing and disability justice until September 2025:
https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/zines-forever-diy-
publishing-and-disability-justice
KCL MSc student Rachel Rowan Olive considers the best ways to screen for mental health problems in refugees, exploring a recent Swedish paper evaluating the Refugee Health Screener-13 tool.
Rachel Rowan Olive thinks through a recent qualitative study about young peoples’ perspectives on the role of harm reduction techniques in the management of their self-harm.
Rachel Rowan Olive writes her debut elf blog about a recent national survey of mental health crisis resolution teams and crisis care systems in England.
