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Mind Media Awards judges for 2012

	Eric Appleby, Chair of Judging Day
	Eric Appleby is an independent consultant specialising in work with the voluntary sector, with a particular interest in mental health. He spent over 20 years as a voluntary sector chief executive (12 as CEO of Alcohol Concern) and has held senior positions in the key voluntary sector bodies, including serving three terms as Chair of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), as well as acting as an adviser to the Cabinet Office.
	Mark Borkowski
	Mark Borkowski is a publicist, consultant, author and agency head, with a 30-year career that spans work in entertainment, arts, consumer PR and beyond. He is in demand as a commentator for the likes of the BBC, CNN and The Financial Times, and a speaker for organisations including Microsoft, Unilever and London 2012 Festival. He is the author of The Fame Formula, casting an insider’s eye over the history of the fame industry. Mark made front-page news in 2011 with the creation of his new consultancy business, which breaks down the traditional agency model in favour of a network of consultants and collaborators, and currently works with multinational organisations and challenging start-ups alike.
	Sally Brampton
	Sally Brampton is the agony aunt for the Sunday Times and writes a column in Psychologies. She has worked on Vogue, the Observer and was the launch editor of ELLE magazine as well as writing freelance for most national newspapers and magazines. She has written four novels as well as a book of nonfiction, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression. She is a professor of journalism at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, and suffers from major depressive disorder, about which she has written extensively.
	Rebecca Brown
	Winner of the Speaking Out Award in 2011, with her excellent video diaries that have had over six million video views on YouTube. A selection of her films is a very personal take, at times funny, at times painfully raw, on a little known condition called trichotillomania, which is more commonly known as compulsive hair-pulling. At only 18 she was applauded for her honesty and creativity in developing such accessible, entertaining and brilliantly produced films. Having spent the summer in the USA at the New York Film Academy, she is about to embark on a two-year intensive film-making degree at the Met Film School in London.
	Donna Franceschild
	BAFTA-award-winning writer Donna Franceschild won one of the first Mental Health (now Mind) Media Awards in 1995 for her ground-breaking television drama serial Takin’ Over the Asylum, and again in 2001 for Donovan Quick. She has written extensively for television, radio and theatre and has tackled mental health issues for the Guardian Society and Mental Health Today. In 2011 she was invited to speak about "Living with Bipolar Disorder" at the European Molecular Biology Organisation's conference on Mental Illness. Donna works as a volunteer ChildLine counsellor in Glasgow, where an updated stage version of Takin’ Over the Asylum premieres at the Citizens Theatre in February.
	Gwyneth Hughes
	Gwyneth Hughes trained as a newspaper journalist before becoming a BAFTA-nominated television documentary director, specialising in crime and history. As a writer of TV drama, she started on ITV’s The Bill and BBC One’s Silent Witness. She has written two award-winning screenplays based on actual events: Cherished for the BBC and Mysterious Creatures for ITV. Gwyneth’s other credits include the ITV drama Blood Strangers, which was nominated for a Prix Italia, and her Golden Globe nominated thriller serial, Five Days. Most recently, she adapted and completed Charles Dickens’ unfinished last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for BBC Two. Her latest film, The Girl, portrays Alfred Hitchcock’s erotic obsession with his star actress Tippi Hedren, also for BBC Two.
	Nina Lakhani
	Nina Lakhani has been a health and social affairs reporter at The Independent, Independent on Sunday and i for the past five and a half years where she has focused on investigative reporting around patient safety and access to justice. Before that she was a mental health nurse for 10 years, working with acutely unwell individuals and their families in hospital and at home. She has written extensively about mental health for The Independent newspapers. She is moving to Central America to embark on a freelance career in the New Year.
	David Lloyd
	David Lloyd is a Visiting Professor of Television Journalism at City University. Until 2002 he was Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4, where he founded both the Dispatches and Unreported World series. Before that he edited many of the BBC’s most important news and current affairs programmes, including Newsnight, the Money Programme and Breakfast Time.
	Liz Main
	Liz Main is a mental health specialist with a background in journalism, television production and public relations. She now works with the voluntary sector on mental health policy, with a particular emphasis on reducing stigma and discrimination. Liz was awarded the Mental Health Media Survivor Award in 2002 for a Channel 4 report on mental health legislation.
	Peter Moffat
	Peter Moffat is a playwright and BAFTA-winning screenwriter. His first play was called Fine and Private Place and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1997. His best known plays are Nabokov's Gloves and Iona Rain. A former barrister, an early screen-writing commission was for an episode of Kavanagh QC. He has since created three British television legal dramas: North Square, Criminal Justice and Silk. He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the television film Einstein and Eddington. His latest project, The Village, is currently in production.
	Mary O’Hara
	Mary O’Hara is a journalist and writer. She was a staff writer for the Guardian and Observer until 2010, covering subjects ranging from business and personal finance to social affairs eventually specialising in human rights, crime, health and social justice. She is currently freelancing across a number of publications and platforms including the Guardian and the New Statesman. Mary has also worked for broadcasters including the BBC. In 2007 she made her first documentary, Beyond the Railings, which she directed and co-produced. As an Alastair Cooke Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley, California, USA she recently carried out research on press coverage of mental illness in the psychology faculty. In 2008 she was named Mind Journalist of the Year. She recently finished her first novel.
	Dr Max Pemberton
	Max Pemberton is a doctor, journalist and writer. He works full time in the NHS in mental health. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Reader's Digest and a contributor to the Mail On Sunday. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Mind Journalist of the Year award 2010 and the Royal College of Psychiatrists Public Educator of the Year 2010 award. He has also written three books; Trust Me I'm a Junior Doctor, Where Does it Hurt? and The Doctor Will See You Now, all published by Hodder.
	Sian Rabi-Laleh
	Sian Rabi-Laleh is a national officer working within the Health group at UNISON. Previous roles include Assistant national officer at UNISON covering FE and Schools and Disability Equality Organiser at UCU/UNISON, coordinating on a national project that had been funded by the DfES. Sian was also a trustee of SKILL – the national bureau for students with disabilities and was the spokesperson for the Department of Health’s young person mental health campaign ‘Read the Signs’ as well as being a media ambassador and trainer for the Department of Health’s Mind Out for Mental Health campaign. Sian has appeared in a diverse range of media speaking out about young people and mental health and her personal experiences as well as taking part in the BBC 3 documentary Bye Bye Happiness. In 2003 she won the Mental Health Media Survivor of the year award.
	Seyi Rhodes
	Seyi Rhodes travels to some of the most neglected parts of the world as a reporter for Channel 4’s critically acclaimed foreign affairs series, Unreported World. He has presented the Explore series on BBC 2 and various reports for More 4 News, as well as working behind the camera on documentaries for Channel 4’s Dispatches and BBC’s Panorama. Born in London, Seyi spent periods of his childhood in West Africa and has returned to the region for work on a number of occasions, including documentaries about slavery in Senegal and religious and homophobic violence in Nigeria. In 2009 his Unreported World documentary about Sierra Leone, The Insanity of War, won a Mind Mental Health Media Award for best short documentary.
	Matt Wilkinson
	Matt Wilkinson is a radio presenter. He can be heard on the Heart and Capital FM Networks in the UK. He is also the stand-in presenter for the UK's most-listened-to chart show the Vodafone Big Top 40. Matt is the creator and presenter of Mindcast – a series of podcasts for Mind exploring different mental health conditions. Earlier this year, Mindcast: Bipolar was nominated for a prestigious Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Internet Programme. Matt has a degree in Psychology.

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