Rebecca Noble is a PhD candidate in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. Her research addresses how understandings of madness contribute to constructions of selfhood and governance in eighteenth-century Mexico. She has undertaken research in Mexico, the UK and the USA. Rebecca is currently developing a public engagement project on mental health and wellbeing with the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. She also volunteers for Mind, a UK based mental health charity.