As from January Mette Steenberg has been appointed Senior Advisor at the Department of Society and Culture. For the past 10 years she have worked across research and practice within the field of Literature & Mental Health. Her new role is to make that knowledge available to students, fellow researchers, policy makers and practitioners and advise on how to design practice-based research projects that will lead to more knowledge on how people engage with and benefits from engagement with literature. Also, she sees it as her role to build bridges between research and practice by establishing partnerships and dialogue across research and society.