Advancing Forensic Psychiatry – Lindsey Gilling McIntosh BA’14
Lindsey Gilling McIntosh focused on clinical psychology during her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt. Lindsey worked with Sohee Park, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in forensic psychiatry from the University of Edinburgh where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2023, she was awarded the Christopher Webster Early Career Award, which recognizes significant contributions in the forensic mental health field at early stages of a career. She was the first Vanderbilt undergraduate Psychology student to give a talk at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Her talk was on her honors thesis about social traits perception.
In her current work, Lindsey is inspecting prisons all over Scotland, working toward improving the mental healthcare in the Scottish prison population. In addition to research and publications, she is the assistant editor of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services Newsletter, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology.