Julia Macintosh is a scholar, activist and writer with lived experience of psychosis. She has been a member of ISPS-UK since 2023 and joins the board in order to contribute to its mission to promote different approaches to psychosis. Julia lives in Edinburgh and in 2023 she attended Queen Margaret University as an Associate Student in the MSc Mad Studies programme. During this time she and her course colleagues organised a series of meetups which evolved into the Mad Insight project (in development to deliver education and coaching via madinsight.online.) Julia has co-edited Unpsychology Magazine since 2017 and she also joins the Editorial Board of the International Mad Studies Journal in summer 2024. You can find Julia online at www.juliamacintosh.online as well as juliamacintosh.substack.com and unpsychology.substack.com.