Awarded by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), Lucy Maddox is the recipient of the prestigious Engagement & Involvement Award 2024.
Engagement & Involvement Award
Each year, members of the BABCP nominate a person who has significantly contributed to public engagement and/or the involvement of people with lived experience in cognitive behavioural therapies.
We are excited to announce that Lucy Maddox from the Department of Psychology has received the 2024 Engagement & Involvement Award for her achievements involving people in and engaging them with her research. Commenting on the award, Dr Saiqa Naz, BABCP President (2022-2024) said:
We are thrilled to be able to award Lucy with the 2024 BABCP Engagement & Involvement Award. Her work in ensuring lived experience voices are heard in delivering evidence-based talking therapies is highly regarded. I had the pleasure of working closely with Lucy to embed public engagement within BABCP, in particular around making cognitive behavioural therapies accessible for diverse communities, and I'm delighted that her collaborative work is recognised through this award.
Giving people a voice
Lucy, a Clinical Academic Fellow since 2022, has been recognised by her peers for how she has included the voices of people with experience of mental healthcare in the design of her research project, The Compassion Project.
Lucy has been working with healthcare staff, ex-patients and family members who have lived experience in child and adolescent mental health wards to co-produce an intervention to reduce empathy-based stress in staff. Through her work, she aims to improve compassionate care for patients and families in mental health wards for teenagers.
Sharing her work
As well as involving people in her research, Lucy is also recognised for her achievements, sharing her work with a diverse range of public audiences. Lucy has been part of live events including the British Science Festival and Cheltenham Festival, published popular psychology books, most recently the best-selling A Year To Change Your Mind, regularly contributed to print and broadcast media and worked with ITV and the Uncommon creative agency on the Get Britain Talking campaign.
Commenting on Lucy's award, Professor Paul Chadwick said:
This award is richly deserved. Throughout her career Lucy has been deeply committed to public engagement and involvement of people with lived experience. She has a rare gift for communicating complex psychological theory, research, and practice in a clear and engaging way and is always kind, creative, and empowering in her work with service users, carers, NHS staff, and members of the public. Well done Lucy.
Celebrating your work
If you're interested in getting recognised for your public involvement and engagement work and have seen an award scheme you're interested in, the Public Engagement Unit can help you with your nomination. Drop us a line (public-engagement@bath.ac.uk) and we can chat. Keep an eye on our Public Engagement Unit homepage, where we regularly share award schemes.
Dean Veall is Deputy Head of Public Engagement at the University of Bath
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