Meet the Team
Our research brings together expertise from psychology, oncology, immunology, behavioural science, and patient engagement to improve communication and care in immune-mediated cancer treatment (IMCT).
We work closely with clinicians, researchers, patients, and community partners to ensure our research addresses real-world challenges in cancer care.
Programme Leads
Dr Lyndsay Hughes
Reader in Health Psychology, King’s College London
Lyndsay’s research focuses on understanding people’s experience of long-term physical health conditions and supporting them to manage their treatment and symptoms. She uses a range of methods including qualitative, observational studies, randomised controlled trials and experimental studies.
Dr Hughes is the joint programme leader with Prof Chilcot. Building on her research on supporting people to take their medication in cancer and other conditions that use immunotherapy, she co-designed the overall programme of work to support shared decision making through training, education and support of patients and healthcare professionals. Lyndsay uses her mixed-methods training to help design each of the studies currently in progress, collect data and interpret the results, and supervised research students.
Link to academic profile
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lyndsay-hughes
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Prof Joseph Chilcot
Professor of Health Psychology, King’s College London
Joe Chilcot’s work centres on how people think, feel, and behave when living with long-term physical illnesses and how these psychological factors shape health outcomes. He is particularly interested in the relationship between mental and physical health. His research spans depression, fatigue, illness perceptions, psychometrics, and development of psychological interventions.
Joe is joint programme lead with Dr Lyndsay Hughes. He contributed to the development and design of the programme, where he will support the quantitative aspects of the research, including data analysis, interpretation and dissemination.
Link to academic profile
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/joseph-chilcot
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Dr Sophie Fawson
Sophie’s research focuses on understanding symptoms and experiences of people living with a long-term physical health condition including cancer. She specialises in developing treatments specifically in digital health and mixed-methods clinical research.
Sophie is a co-investigator on the programme bringing experience.
Link to academic profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sophie-Fawson
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Post-doctoral research associate, King’s College London
Our research team includes researchers with expertise in psychology, cancer care, behavioural science, and health research.
Research Team
Ingvild Groenlien
MSc of Health Psychology , King’s College London
Contribution to the programme
Ingvild’s research interests focus on health-related outcomes, including cancer and frailty, and the biopsychosocial factors influencing these.
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If you are a clinician, researcher, patient organisation, or community group interested in collaboration, please visit our Collaborate With Us page or contact the research team.