Dr Lisa Ballard (DHealthPsych CPsychol AFBPsS) is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow within the faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Lisa graduated from Solent University in 2005 with a degree in Psychology, then went on to pursue an MSc in Health Psychology at the University of Southampton. Upon graduating from her MSc in 2007, she worked as a research associate at the University College London on a project looking at the feasibility of pharmacies offering computerised tailored advice to aid in smoking cessation. In 2008, she took up an NHS Health Promotion post in Southampton, where she worked for 8 years in the area of behaviour change. She commenced her Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology in 2013 with the University of the West of England and graduated in 2017.
During her Professional Doctorate, Lisa worked in Health Promotion and in the Clinical Genetics Department at University Hospital Southampton as a qualitative researcher for STAARS (Adults and Adolescents with Russell-Silver Syndrome in the UK). The qualitative arm of the research aimed to explore what it is like to live with Silver-Russell syndrome through in-depth interviews with adults and adolescents. Part of this research formed the basis of her thesis for her Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology.
Currently, Lisa is based in the School of Primary Care, Population Science, and Medical Education (PPM) in the Faculty of Medicine, where she is undertaking an NIHR Fellowship. She is a Chartered Health Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow. Lisa’s research broadly involves applying a behavioural science approach to explore the ethical and psychosocial aspects of implementing new technologies in healthcare. Lisa’s current focus in this area is developing interventions to support patients in communicating inherited risk to close relatives.
