• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2003
• PhD Psychiatric Genetics 1999
• Membership of the British Psychological Society 1993
• BSc (Hons) Psychology 1993

Lisa qualified with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Manchester in 1993. She went on to work as a Research Associate in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine. She commenced her PhD in Psychiatric Genetics 1995 within the same department, and this was awarded in 1999 when she continued her work as a post-doctoral researcher. She joined the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in Psychiatry in 2000, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005.

• Programme Lead for the Intercalated BMedSc in Psychological Medicine.
• Deputy Course Director for the Population Sciences and Humanities Intercalated BMedSc programmes.
• Module Lead for the Decision-Making module in Year 2 of the MBChB programme.
• Lead teacher for a number of Student Project 1 & 2 modules on the MBChB programme:
       Biological Basis of Madness
       Social, Cultural and Ethnic Aspects of Mental Health
       All in the Mind
       Motion & Emotion
       Psychiatry, Violence & the Law
       Mad or Bad: Media Portrayals of Personality Disorder
• Year 2 Tutor and Deputy Head of Student Support and Development on the MBChB programme.
• Personal Mentor on the MBChB programme.
• Lead teacher for psychology, and Year 1 Tutor, on the Graduate Entry Course in Medicine.
• Internal Examiner for the MSc in Forensic Mental Health Studies.
• Internal Examiner for the MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry.

• Rachel Upthegrove. (PhD ongoing). The characterisation and course of first-episode psychosis. Supervisor.
• Jennifer De Souza. (PhD ongoing). Familiality of psychiatric symptoms in Huntington’s Disease. Supervisor.
• Deirdre Lane. Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ongoing). Mentor.
• Clare Taylor. Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ongoing). Mentor.
• Ruth Blamey PhD (ongoing). Mentor.
• Katherine Gordon-Smith (PhD 2003-2007). Neuropsychiatric studies in Darier’s Disease: In search of phenotype-genotype correlations. Supervisor.
• Paul Campbell (PhD 2002-2005). Caregiver stress, burden and depression: the role of attributions and personality. Supervisor.
• Samuel Stoddart (PhD 2001-2005). Cognitive processing in affective illnesses. Supervisor.

Lisa heads the Mood Disorders Research Group and currently has funding from two of the world’s leading medical research charities – the Wellcome Trust and the Stanley Medical Research Institute. Her research interests lie in the aetiology of major mental illnesses (bipolar spectrum mood disorders and psychosis). She has particular interests in enriching and refining phenotype definitions for molecular genetic studies, and in underlying cognitive and neuropsychological deficits.

She is a founding member of the Bipolar Disorder Research Network (BDRN), a group of researchers and research participants in the UK involved in investigating the underlying causes of bipolar disorder.

• Hosted the Annual Conference for MDF – The Bipolar Organisation at the University of Birmingham in 2010.
• Reviewer for the following grant giving bodies:
       Wellcome Trust
       Cancer Research UK
       Department of Health
       Parkinson’s Disease Society
       Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC),
       Medical Research Scotland
• Reviewer for the following journals:
       American Journal of Psychiatry
       Bipolar Disorders 
       Genes, Brain & Behavior
       Psychiatry Research
       Journal of Affective Disorders
       Behavior Genetics
       European Psychiatry

Lisa Jones, Jan Scott, Sian Caesar, Caroline Cooper, Liz Forty, Katherine Gordon Smith, Pak Sham, Anne Farmer, Peter McGuffin, Nick Craddock, Ian Jones^. (2010) Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to the postpartum triggering of major depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 196; 200-205

Nick Craddock, Lisa Jones, Ian R Jones, George Kirov, Elaine K Green, Detelina Grozeva, Valentina Moskvina, Ivan Nikolov, Marian L Hamshere, Damjan Vukcevic, Sian Caesar, Katharine Gordon-Smith, Christine Fraser, Ellie Russell, Nadine Norton, Gerome Breen, David St Clair; David A Collier, Allan H Young, I Nicol Ferrier; Anne Farmer, Peter McGuffin; Peter A Holmans, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), Peter Donnelly, Michael J Owen,Michael C O’Donovan. (2010) Strong genetic evidence for a selective influence of GABA_A  receptors on a component of the bipolar disorder phenotype. Molecular Psychiatry, 15(2):146-53.

Rachel Upthegrove, Max Birchwood, Kerry Ross; Kat Brunet;Richard McCollum, Lisa Jones. (2010) The Evolution of Depression and Suicidality in First Episode Psychosis. Acta Psychiatric Scandanavica, 122; 211-218.

K. Gordon-Smith, L.A. Jones, S. M. Burge, C. S. Munro, S. Tavadia, N. Craddock. (2010) The Neuropsychiatric Phenotype in Darier Disease. British Journal of Dermatology, 163(3); 515-522.

E K Green, D Grozeva, I R Jones, L Jones, G Kirov, S Caesar, K Gordon-Smith, C Fraser, L Forty, E Russell, M L Hamshere, V Moskvina, I Nikolov, A Farmer, P McGuffin, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, P A Holmans, M J Owen, M C O'Donovan and N Craddock. (2010) Bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk to recurrent major depression and to schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry, 15(10); 1016-1022.

Lewis CM, Ng MY, Butler AW, Cohen-Woods S, Uher R, Pirlo K, Weale M, Schosser A, Paredes U, Rivera-Sanchez M, Craddock N, Owen MJ, Jones L, Jones I, Korszun A, Aitchison KJ, Shi J, Quinn J, McKenzie A, Heath S, Lathrop M, Muglia P, Barnes M, Whittaker JC, Tozzi F, Holsboer F, Preisig M, Farmer AE, Breen G, Craig I, McGuffin P. (2010) Genome-wide association study of major recurrent depression in the UK population. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(8); 949-957.

Liz Forty, Mark Kelly, Lisa Jones, Ian Jones Emma Barnes, Sian Caesar, Christine Fraser, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Emily Griffiths, Nick Craddock, Daniel J Smith. (2010)^. Reducing the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) to a 16-item version. Journal of Affective Disorders, 124; 351-356.

Welcome Trust Case Control Consortium. (2010) Genome-wide association study of copy number variation in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature, 464(7289); 713-20.