Lydia Poole MSc, PhD, FHEA

Dr. Lydia Poole was awarded first-class honors for a 4-year BSc in Psychology at the University of Bath in 2006, including a one-year academic placement in neuropsychiatry at Hunter New England Mental Health in Newcastle, Australia. On graduation, Lydia worked as a rehabilitation assistant for Headway, a brain injury organization. In 2007/8 she undertook an MSc in Health Psychology at the University of London (KCL and UCL) for which she was awarded a distinction. Lydia secured funding for this MSc with a scholarship awarded by the Medical Research Council. Lydia worked as a full-time research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL) for a year following the completion of her MSc. In 2009 she was awarded a studentship from the British Heart Foundation for her Ph.D. research project. In 2016 she was awarded a fellowship from the ESRC on the Future Leader scheme. Lydia is currently working with Dr Ami Banerjee in the Institute of Health Informatics on an NIHR-funded grant exploring barriers to engagement with digital interventions for cardiometabolic disease among South Asians.