Dr. Miriam Hillyard is an MRC Addiction Research Clinical Fellow at the National Addiction Centre, and joined King's College London in 2018. She has a background in LGBTQ+ health research, and is currently completing a PhD on the experiences of sexual minority women with drug and/or alcohol problems. She graduated in Medicine (BM BCh) from the University of Oxford, and Epidemiology (MSc) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked as an NHS doctor since 2014, and is also a qualified psychosexual and relationship therapist (RegCOSRT). Her interests include: health inequities for the LGBTQ+ community, sexualised drug use and chemsex, and psychosexual health. She regularly teaches on these topics in NHS or academic settings.  

Research Interests

• LGBTQ+ health
• Addiction
• Psychosexual medicine
• Health inequities
• Sex and relationship therapy
• Stigma, discrimination, marginalisation
• Sexualised drug use and chemsex
• Reproductive health and menopause
• Sex education
• Qualitative research methods
• Promoting lived experience in research

Teaching

Teaching for KCL Addictions MSc and KCL Medical School.