rofessor Hilary Mairs is an Occupational Therapist by background. She is the current Deputy Head of the School of Health Sciences at The University of Manchester. Her clinical experience, teaching and scholarship have focused on individual and family psychosocial interventions for psychosis. She has published several papers and facilitated workshops in Europe and the Far East relating to interventions to address reduced expression and activity (negative symptoms) in psychosis/schizophrenia. Her book, Revisiting Negative Symptoms: Working with reduced expression and activity in psychosis, has been published in English (2017) and Italian (2019). Professor Mairs has also worked with service user and carer networks to co-produce educational materials about hearing voices (positive symptoms of psychosis) and reviews of specific educational strategies to enhance student and healthcare professionals understanding of these experiences.