Dr. Lucy Thompson is a critical psychologist whose interests include institutions (broadly defined), power, and identity. She is an interdisciplinary scholar within and outside of psychology. Specifically, she is trained in the traditions of feminist and qualitative psychology. In her research, she examines the interplay of the 'personal' and the 'political' in an array of situations. The goal of her work is to develop institutionally situated accounts of psychological experiences and phenomena. In doing so, she considers how self-contained notions of the 'individual' function to obscure the situated and relational nature of our very existence. To examine this relationality, she has developed a methodological framework: Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis. In her theoretical and empirical work, she has contributed a feminist psychological (re)conceptualization of 'Imposter Syndrome' as a relational phenomenon grounded in institutional (un)belonging. Her recent book, Institutional Trauma: A Critical Psychological Perspective on Power, Violence, and Harm, reconsiders trauma as an institutional phenomenon in the sense that meanings and experiences of trauma are always institutionally located, situated, and comprehended. More broadly, she has an empirical research program examining the impacts of power relations on individual experiences in a range of institutional settings. This includes a program of interdisciplinary health-related research examining the relational and structural mechanisms underpinning disparate experiences and outcomes in healthcare settings.