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Background

Elizabeth Edgar (Liz) is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. She has over 25 years’ experience working within or for Defence and Security organisations; promoting human science research evidence and consultancy to improve organisational performance through people capability.

Liz was the UK’s lead representative for Human Sciences on the 5-eyes Technical Cooperation Programme (TTCP); governing international panels covering Human Systems Integration, Training, Medicine and HR research. She was one of TTCP’s subject matter experts on military personnel research. In this senior leadership role, Liz directed programme content to align with national strategy whilst promoting partnership behaviours across teams.

As a technical leader at Dstl, Liz built strong relationships with senior military stakeholders to help direct the content of research programmes; ensuring resulting research had impact. She also developed strong relationships with industry and academic suppliers helping to ensure a strong human science delivery capability for Defence within the UK.

In 2022 Liz received a MOD Chief Scientific Advisor Award for Services to Human Science. Also this year, she moved to France and started her own business.

Current activities

In one of her last roles before leaving Dstl, Liz was Ethics Champion for new and emerging technology capabilities. Bringing ethical philosophy to life for engineers and practitioners remains a particular area of interest.

Liz continues to provide psychology research and consultancy for Defence clients with recent work covering topics such as training evaluation, well-being and resilience. She supports research programme strategy development as well as research assurance.

Liz supports the development of Occupational Psychologists and is an assessor for the BPS Qualification in Occupation Psychology. She also supports the development of other leaders and is a qualified executive coach.

She is an Independent Member of the MOD Research Ethics Committee and a reviewer for the journal BMJ – Military Health.