 I always leave every public engagement activity having learned at least one thing that I actually hadn't thought of before. My public engagement project is aligned with my principal research fellowship project which is called PRIDE and the aim of PRIDE is to develop psychological treatments for common mental health problems that affect adolescents, particularly emotional and behavioural disorders. The public engagement project really aims to understand from adolescents their beliefs about mental health problems, their aspirations from life, their fears about the threats to their mental health, because we believe that it is only through understanding young people's own perspectives about mental health and the broader social and cultural context in which they live can we design an intervention that is going to be acceptable to them. We use a number of different media that young people in India are comfortable with engaging with, for example performance art, particularly street theatre is a good example or what's called forum theatre. The second one is using social networking, for example a variety of different social network sites, blogs etc. And just recently in Delhi we organised a meeting of a number of different artists who are working in the health space and with young people and amongst the examples that we saw there on display including street art as another way of reaching young people and dance. But the best thing about my current public engagement work is being with young people. They're an amazingly endearing, challenging, stimulating, occasionally exasperating but always fun, always fun, tremendously entertaining and actually they give you insights into the world that we live in which is so central to understanding health problems that as an academic researcher sometimes I sit back and say oh my god that is just fascinating. That is such a clever idea such a such an interesting way of seeing this problem and I couldn't have ever thought of that sitting in a research office with my colleagues. They really want to make sure actually that the science I pursue is actually aligned with their own ideas and so that's been a very pleasant surprise.