Last year, Garth Williams won "Best Creative Innovation" at MediaCity Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub for his dramatic reconstruction of a year spent as a psychiatric inpatient across four hospitalisations.

Based on Garth’s true story beginning at age 17, the reconstruction titled, The Ward Round, includes a video game, live show, “In The Round” (training for frontline staff), and “Full Circle” (community workshops).

In this episode, the Manchester-based actor, writer, producer, and creative technologist discusses his journey from struggling with psychosis to co-developing virtual reality experiences with lived experience advisory groups.