Hannah Lewis

Hannah Lewis is a PhD student at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. Her research focuses on exploring ethnicity, body dissatisfaction, and culturally adaptive interventions, particularly for South Asian women and LGBTQIA+ groups. She is funded by the LISS-DTP and supported by the NIHR North Thames Applied Research Collaboration. Lewis holds an MSc in Cultural and Global Perspectives in Mental Health (2017) and an MRes in Psychological Therapies (2019), both from Queen Mary.

Her research interests include body image disorders, co-production in mental health interventions, and mental health policy advocacy. She has worked with national mental health charities in roles spanning children’s mental health, early intervention in psychosis (EIP), and physical health equity for individuals with severe mental illness. During her PhD, she served as a UKRI Policy Fellow, contributing to parliamentary inquiries on body image and youth mental health.

Teaching activities include supervising projects on the MSc Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition course at University College London (UCL). Her academic work is supervised by Professor Mark Freestone, Dr. Ruth Taylor, Dr. Una Foye (King’s College London), and Dr. Erica Cini (East London Foundation Trust).