Peter Atkins

Public contributor

I have been a carer of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder since 1990. We have 4 children, 3 girls and 1 boy, and I live in Poole in Dorset.

I had a heart attack in 2018 and have had 3 stents fitted so I also have Service User experience as well as my Carers experience.

I set up and ran a Mental Health Carers Charity from 2000 – 2013 with Big Lottery funding in the South and East Dorset area. Since 2006 I have worked at Bournemouth University as a Co-ordinator of the BU PIER Partnership in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. My role is to co-ordinate Carer and Service User involvement in the following programmes: Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Paramedic Science and Operating Department Practice.

I am a Higher Education Academy Associate Fellow as well as being a work place champion for Carer’s UK.

Outside of PPIE I enjoy both coarse and fly fishing in the Dorset countryside.