In 1996 Matt graduated with Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Birmingham. He worked as a mental health social worker/ASW for 7 years and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. In 2004 Matt joined the National Institute for Mental Health and worked on a number of national programmes.
From 2005 – 2008 he was the Deputy Director of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme at the Department of Health. In the summer of 2008, Matt took a 3-year secondment to work with the voluntary sector. He is currently the National Stakeholder Manager for the “Time to Change”: the largest mental health anti-stigma and discrimination programme ever undertaken in England. Matt is a Senior Associate with the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.