About Lynda Tait, PhD

Hometown: Birmingham, UK.
Hobbies: Reading books, listening to music, writing a novel, computer games, and playing the electric guitar.
Pets: A high-maintenance much loved cat named Woody.
Fave films: Thelma & Louise & No Country for Old Men.
Fave authors: Giles Blunt, Willy Vlautin, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Steve Cavanagh, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Emma Cooper, Khaled Hosseini, Tayari Jones, Elmore Leonard, Cormac McCarthy, David Moody, Tim Winton.
Fave food: Ice cream, preferably vanilla flavour.

Lynda Tait is the author of published peer-reviewed academic journal articles and contributed to a published non-fiction book, “Promoting Recovery in Early Psychosis: A Practice Manual,” Wiley-Blackwell. Her scientific writing has appeared in The British Journal of Psychiatry; The BMJ; Brain Sciences; Systematic Reviews; Medical Education; Advances in Psychiatric Treatment; Schizophrenia Research; and many other publications. You can read a selection of Lynda Tait’s publications on the Articles page of this site.

Lynda has a First Class BSc and a PhD in Psychology. She taught statistics, research design and medical communication skills at the University of Birmingham.

Lynda is currently working on a crime novel exploring a miscarriage of justice. She is also writing a book of short stories about the trials and tribulations of working in academia, a topic dear to her. Before becoming a writer, Lynda spent more than two decades working as a research psychologist and teaching medical and PhD students. Those experiences are central to the academic short stories, which you can read more about here. Lynda also has a passion for music and loves playing the electric guitar.

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