Lydia was awarded first class honours for a 4-year BSc in Psychology at the University of Bath in 2006, including a one year academic placement in neuropsychiatry at Hunter New England Mental Health in Newcastle, Australia. On graduation, Lydia worked as a rehabilitation assistant for Headway, a brain injury organization. In 2007/8 she undertook an MSc in Health Psychology at the University of London (KCL and UCL) for which she was awarded a distinction. Lydia secured funding for this MSc with a scholarship awarded by the Medical Research Council. Lydia worked as a full-time research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL) for a year following the completion of her MSc. In 2009 she was awarded a studentship from the British Heart Foundation for her PhD research project. In 2016 she was awarded a fellowship from the ESRC on the Future Leader scheme. Lydia is currently working with Dr Ami Banerjee in the Institute of Health Informatics on an NIHR funded grant exploring barriers to engagement with digital interventions for cardiometabolic disease among South Asians.