The UK-based project Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) sets out to increase networking and sharing innovative approaches to learning and teaching about mental health and distress across the disciplines in higher education. An important feature of this project is that it advocates for the involvement of service users and carers in mental health education, teaching and training. Hannah Kienzler interviews the coordinator of mhhe, Jill Anderson (department of Educational Research at Lancaster University) about the project and new pedagogical approaches that it has engendered.