Dr Kyla Pennington
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mental Health
Profile
Biography
- Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Mental Health, University of York, 2025-
- Senior Honorary Research Fellow in Behavioural Science, University of Lincoln, 2025-2028.
- Associate Professor in Behavioural Science, Lincoln Medical School, University of Lincoln, 2024-2025.
- Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, 2016-2024.
- Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, 2013 – 2016.
- Research Assistant, Leeds and York NHS Partnership Foundation Trust, 2012 – 2013.
- Visiting Research Fellow, Leeds University, 2012 – 2012.
- PGDip (Distinction) Psychology, York St John University 2010-2011.
- Parkinson’s Disease Society Research Fellow, Leeds University, 2007-2009.
- Post-doctoral Research Scientist – Neuroproteomics, University College Dublin, 2006-2007.
- DPhil in Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, 2002-2006.
- BSc (2:1 Hons) in Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, 1997-2001.
Career
I completed my PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry in 2006 in the neuropathology of schizophrenia and continued with this focus during my postdoctoral fellowship in University College Dublin where I explored further the neuroproteomics of psychiatric pathology. I subsequently worked on a Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Society Research Fellowship investigating the role of mitochondrial function in neuronal cell models of PD before studying a PGDip in Psychology from York St John in 2011 and working as a clinical research assistant for the Leeds and York Mental Health Trust. I moved to Lincoln for a lectureship in 2016 where I led the Psychobiology and Mental Health Lab in the School of Psychology for over 10 years. In 2024 I moved to the Lincoln Medical School to take up the post of Associate Professor in Behavioural Science and then to the University of York to take up a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health post in 2025.
