Lisa Schölin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Biography

Background

Lisa trained in public health science and research methods in Sweden before moving to the UK where she completed a MSc and PhD in public health. After her PhD, she worked as a researcher in alcohol policy at University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh and as a consultant for the alcohol and prison health programme at WHO Regional Office for Europe. Lisa’s early career research focused on alcohol use during pregnancy and effective interventions to prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies, as well as other aspects of alcohol-related harm and policy-related issues.

More recently, Lisa worked as a researcher for the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland where she worked on monitoring the use of mental health and capacity legislation and specific issues related to compulsory psychiatric care, including significantly impaired decision-making as a criterion for compulsory care, ethical challenges to providing remote assessments during Covid-19, and length of short-term detentions. Her current work focuses on emergency care for substance use and mental health issues, and she also works as a researcher with the Scottish Ambulance Service on these topics. She is the co-convenor of the Drugs Research Network for Scotland and chairs the Acute Responses to emergency Mental Health and Substance use (ARMHS) Research Network which she was involved in setting up. 

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