Mark Lee

Dr Mark Lee is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences. Mark spent more than a decade focused on clinical work across a range of settings, with a particular focus on high-stress and high-performance environments. Working closely with people whose jobs placed heavy demands on them, he saw again and again how deeply our work impacts our mental health, for better and for worse, and how rarely that link is given the attention it deserves.

Mark's research focuses on how work shapes our identity, affects our mental health and wellbeing and what helps people navigate change to thrive. That interest has since reached beyond the workplace, exploring how other parts of everyday life, including the music we listen to, play an important role in our mental health. Across both strands the aim is the same, to better understand the ordinary things that quietly influence our mental health. Mark continues to practise as a psychologist alongside research, keeping the work grounded in the realities it sets out to understand.