Rosie WeatherleySector leader

Biography

Rosie Weatherley is Information Content Manager at Mind, the national mental health charity based in London. She manages the team that researches and writes mental health information for Mind, ensuring content is factually accurate and reflects the lived experience of people with mental health problems. Before joining Mind she worked at a different national charity providing information and advice to disabled people. She has been quoted in UK press coverage on issues including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), where she has argued that the evidence base for the treatment has never been fit for purpose. She also led Mind's public communications on the risks of AI-generated mental health information, writing in The Guardian about inaccurate and harmful outputs from Google's AI Overviews. She has been in her current role since at least June 2019.

References

1. 1.13 Questions with Rosie Weatherley from Mind – Zoella — Confirms role title, responsibilities managing Mind's mental health information team, and prior career at a disability information charity
2. 2.How open questions reveal the full extent of damage done by electroconvulsive therapy – Medical Xpress — Quotes Weatherley as Information Content Manager at Mind on ECT evidence base and patient information
3. 3.Mind global inquiry launched after AI gives out inaccurate health information – Patient Information Forum — Confirms Weatherley wrote in The Guardian about harmful AI-generated mental health information, citing specific harmful AI outputs
4. 4.Experts raise the alarm over rise in use of AI for mental health support – Mind — Quotes Weatherley as Information Content Manager in July 2026 press release on Mind's Mental Health and AI Commission

Expertise

Cited on

• Mental health

Stated areas of expertise

• Mental health information and public education
• AI and mental health
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) evidence and patient rights
• Mental health content standards
• Digital mental health resources

Notable achievements

• Authored a Guardian article on the dangers of AI-generated mental health information, citing specific harmful outputs from Google AI Overviews, as part of Mind's inquiry into AI and mental health. Source ↗
• Spoke publicly on behalf of Mind endorsing research findings that the evidence base for ECT is not fit for purpose, calling for a rethink of when the treatment is offered. Source ↗
• Contributed to Mind's Patient Information Forum (PIF)-accredited mental health and AI resource, launched July 2026. Source ↗

What they’ve said

• “AI Overviews replaced that richness with a clinical-sounding summary that gives an illusion of definitiveness. They give the user more of one form of clarity (brevity and plain English), while giving them less of another form of clarity (security in the source of the information, and how much to trust it).”

  information content manager at Mind · Mental health · 27 Aug 2026 · Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigation ↗

• “In each of these examples we are seeing how AI Overviews are flattening information about highly sensitive and nuanced areas into neat answers. And when you take out important context and nuance and present it in the way AI Overviews do, almost anything can seem plausible. This process is especially harmful for people who are likely to be in some level of distress.”

  information content manager at Mind · Mental health · 27 Aug 2026 · ‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews ↗

Source references

1. Mind launches inquiry into AI and mental health after Guardian investigationtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
2. ‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviewstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

Contact & links

• Staff pagehttps://www.mind.org.uk/media-centre/media-team/
• Press office emailmedia@mind.org.ukpublished here ↗
• Press office phone020 8522 1743published here ↗
• LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rweatherley/

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