Professor
Joanna Seymlen

Joanna Semlyen is Professor of Psychology and Equality at Norwich Medical School and Associate Dean for Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of East Anglia. She is Academic Lead for the Wellcome Trust funded study: Increasing Diversity and Access to inclusion (IDEA) and is Principal Investigator for the MRC IAA funded study developing guidelines for EDI and  research (EDIT).  She is a HCPC Registered Health Psychologist and a British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist. Her research focus is on the health and healthcare experiences of minoritized populations and publishes widely in the area of health inequalities in gender and sexual minorities and she is the co-author of a recently published Palgrave MacMillan book Sexual minorities and mental health: Current perspectives and new directions. Her current research also focuses on EDI considerations in research and education, improving research culture and levels of cultural competency within medical and psychology training and is developing interventions to improve skills, knowledge and awareness of diversity issues in medics, psychologists and other HCPs. She continues to research sexual minority health.