Dr Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist at the University of Oxford. She holds a Prudence Trust Research Fellowship and a NIHR Senior Research Fellowship. Her group researches 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. Prior to Oxford, she completed her PhD and postdoc at UCL and moved on to a lectureship at University of York. Her first book, What Mental Illness Really Is (…and what it isn’t), was published by Penguin Random House in 2021. Her second book, Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us, will be published in July 2024. Her work has been featured in national and international media outlets including The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, BBC Radio 4, BBC Newsnight and The New York Times. Lucy can be found on Twitter (@lfoulkesy) and Instagram (@drlucyfoulkes).
