Lucy November is a with an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lucy spent several years living in Sierra Leone working with ex-combatant children and was awarded the Wellbeing of Women's international midwifery fellowship for 2017, to study the causes of adolescent maternal mortality in Freetown, based at Kings College London. This research has led to Lucy co-founding and piloting 2YoungLives, a mentoring scheme for vulnerable pregnant teenagers in Sierra Leone, which became a major workstream of the NIHR-funded Global Health Group CRIBS.

Lucy worked for several years as a parent-and-child foster carer and ‘hub home carer’ for the award-winning Mockingbird Family Hub Model team. She was funded in 2019 by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust to research the training and support needs of parent-and-child foster carers in the UK, from which has developed a range of resources and an extensive network of practitioners in this speciality.