Molly Lancaster joined King’s College London in October 2025 as a PhD student researching a proof of concept and feasibility of a school-based exercise intervention to enhance resilience and well-being in adolescent females with ADHD.

Molly is also a member of the ADHD Research Lab and MORPH lab at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. She is supervised by Professor Ellie Dommett, Dr Oliver Runswick and Professor Heather King.

Alongside her PhD studies, Molly is a secondary school teacher in inner city London, where her passion for empowering education for females, especially those with ADHD, has been amplified.

She has a BSc in Biomedical Science from St George’s University London and an MSc in Psychology, where her interest in sport psychology flourished. She gained her PGCE from Goldsmiths University of London.

Research interests

• ADHD
• Exercise
• Education

Publications

• The effect of exercise on resilience, its mediators and moderators, in a general population during the UK COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: a cross-sectional online study