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Professor Lisa Jones is a Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Worcester, leading the MPhil/PhD Course at the Three Counties Medical School and overseeing MBChB Student Support. She holds additional roles as Psychology Subject Lead and Research Methods Subject Lead. With over 30 years in academia and research, her career includes roles at Cardiff University, University of Birmingham, and her current chair at Worcester since 2015. Her research focuses on bipolar disorder aetiology, mood disorders, and medical education innovation, particularly student wellbeing and clinical behavioral science teaching. She founded the UK Bipolar Disorder Research Network (BDRN), which manages one of the world's largest bipolar disorder research cohorts (7,500 individuals). Her work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and Stanley Medical Research Institute. Key research themes include genetic and environmental factors in mental illness, perinatal mental health, and personalized mood monitoring via digital tools like True Colours.
Education: BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Manchester, 1993), PhD in Psychiatric Genetics (Cardiff University, 1999), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (University of Birmingham). Her research has produced over 50 peer-reviewed articles, focusing on genomic studies, clinical outcomes, and cross-disorder genetic liabilities. She collaborates internationally, contributing to multi-ancestry genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk research.
Her recent work explores the impact of the pandemic on mood disorder patients, genetic predictors of bipolar disorder recurrence during pregnancy, and optimizing remote self-monitoring for symptom management.
