Biography
Lindsey is a clinical academic in old age psychiatry. After her medical training at the Royal Free Hospital, which included a BSc in Molecular Medicine she started her clinical training which was predominantly based in Bristol. She was lucky enough enough to work with Professor David Nutt in the Bristol Psychopharmacology unit during her core training in psychiatry. During her advanced training in Psychiatry she moved to working with Professor Ian Day and studying genetic influences on cognition, which formed the basis of her Wellcome Trust funded research training fellowship. After her PhD she combined completing her clinical training in both general adult & old age psychiatry with postdoctoral research. She was awarded a junior fellowship by the Alzheimer's Society in 2019, which allowed her to focus on the complex relationship between depression and dementia.
She moved to the University of Southampton in 2025 to take up an associate professor post in older age psychiatry. In addition to her research work she works as a consultant in old age psychiatry