Lucy Leigh

Lucy has an undergradate degree in Medical Radiation Science (Radiation Therapy) from the University of Newcastle, and worked for a year as a Radiation Therapist at the Royal North Shore Hospital (Sydney), before completing her second undergraduate degree in Mathematics, at the University of Newcastle. Throughout the final year of her second undergraduate degree Lucy began working at the Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing, at the University of Newcastle, and continued to work there for 7 years, primarily working with data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH).

In 2012 Lucy also commenced a PhD in Gender and Health through the University of Newcastle, researching ageing trajectories in women from the 1921-26 cohort of the ALSWH, and aims to submit her thesis by the end of 2016. In 2016 Lucy began working as a statistician at the Clinical Research Design and Statistical Support unit of the HMRI (CReDITSS).