Dr Lucy Foulkes

Lucy is an academic psychologist conducting research about mental health and social development in adolescence, with a particular focus on the possible negative consequences of increased public mental health awareness and school-based mental health interventions. She is the author of the popular science book What Mental Illness Really Is And What It Isn't (Penguin Random House, 2021).

Lucy completed her PhD (2011–15) and postdoc (2015–17) at UCL before moving to the University of York for a lectureship (2018–20). She is currently a Prudence Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. She also holds part-time posts as a Senior Research Fellow at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and as an Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at UCL.