معرفی
Lydia Poole is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Surrey, with expertise in psychobiological mechanisms linking mental and physical health.
Research Focus: Her ESRC Future Leaders Fellowship investigated biosocial pathways connecting depression with chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes. Current work examines inflammatory stress responses in type 2 diabetes and loneliness in older adults.
Methodology: Combines epidemiological analysis of longitudinal datasets (ELSA) with qualitative studies on depression experience in chronic illness.
Contributions: Demonstrated how depressive symptoms predict chronic disease burden over 10+ years, and how subjective wellbeing influences glycated hemoglobin levels in older adults.
