Dr Lucy Livingston is a Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She received her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s in 2020. She held a Waterloo Foundation fellowship at Cardiff University and returned to King’s in 2022 to become a Lecturer in Psychology.

Her research uses interdisciplinary methods to understand neurodevelopmental conditions across the lifespan. She is particularly interested in social cognition, mental health, and resilience processes in autism, as well as research that is co-developed with neurodivergent people.

Research interests 

• Autism
• Neurodevelopmental conditions
• Social cognition
• Mental health in neurodevelopmental conditions
• Neurodiversity