Dr Becky Inkster has spent over 20 years in academia running multi-million-pound projects across a wide range of topics including neuroscience, mental health, and data science. She obtained her DPhil in Psychiatry at Oxford University and is currently affiliated with Cambridge University.
Becky has sat on the International Advisory Board for Lancet Digital Health for over 5 years. She has worked with The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s National Hub for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science) across many of their programmes. She has further broadened her skills through self-employment and has since worked with numerous international universities, over 100 companies, and different governments. She is an Adviser to Wysa, a conversational AI system for supporting mental health and wellbeing.
She is writing a commissioned book by Nature Springer on “The Ethics of Global Digital Mental Health” and is a Co-Chair of the IEEE SA Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies for Mental Healthcare Program. Furthermore, music, art, and serving society, particularly disadvantaged groups, is also very important in her work. For example, she is a co-founder of Hip Hop Psych with over 10 years’ experience merging hip-hop music and culture with healthcare, including a recently published book entitled “Money, Mental Health, Hip-Hop” that emphasises the importance of understanding cultural contexts.
She is the Head of Science at Arts ARKADE, a new space in London, UK, dedicated to supporting youth in forward thinking ways.
