ADHD Scotland is advised by a voluntary board of trustees who will form the founding members and directors of the organisation when charitable status is awarded. All board members have some form of lived experience of ADHD.
Dr Lucy Thompson is a Chartered Research Psychologist, working as a Senior Research Fellow at University of Aberdeen, and as a Certified ADHD Life Coach.
Lucy’s research interests and expertise are in neurodiversity, parenting, early child development, and women’s wellbeing. She brings thirty years’ experience in the university and health sectors, as well as her more recent experience coaching adults with ADHD and her personal experience of parenting in an ADHD family.
Lucy is passionate about improving understanding and supporting mental wellbeing and functional challenges linked to ADHD and related conditions in both her research and coaching work
Dr Alexandra Pittock is a Consultant General Adult and Liaison Psychiatrist with experience in the assessment and management of a broad range of adult mental health conditions. Her clinical practice focuses on the assessment and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), anxiety disorders, mood disorders, insomnia, complex trauma, and conditions involving overlapping physical and psychological symptoms.
Dr Pittock studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 2013. She became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2018 and is on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult and Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr Pittock currently works in the NHS as a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and leads the Lothian Psychodermatology Service. She also works in the private sector, and is co-founder and clinical director of Edinburgh Mind & Psychiatry, a private clinic in Edinburgh.
Rachael Cassidy is a former primary teacher turned Social Value Lead who has built her career around creating opportunities and providing support for others to thrive.
Rachael brings over 15 years’ experience in strategic leadership, education and partnership working. Rachael designs and delivers high-impact programmes, builds meaningful cross-sector relationships, and uses data, alongside authentic storytelling, to communicate the real world difference this work makes.
Rachael is deeply passionate about widening understanding and reducing stigma around ADHD, as well as improving access to meaningful, compassionate support.
Veronica O’Donoghue is a former social worker, who specialised in supporting adoptive families. She also set up and runs a family business.
After 30 years Veronica left social work to fully support her children who are neurodivergent. Being passionate about helping to enable neurodivergent individuals and families to thrive. She joined the committee for ADHD Parents Support Glasgow and is currently training to be an ADHD coach. Over time Veronica became aware of her own ADHD.
Veronica is committed to promoting understanding of and service development for people with ADHD.
Callum (Cal) Laird is a Service Designer with a passion for designing better services with people, not just for them. Working across both the public and private sectors, Cal has helped organisations design more inclusive, accessible, and human-centred services — most recently at NHS 24.
As a trustee, Cal is driven by helping shape more responsive, inclusive, and accessible services for those with ADHD. He is passionate about reducing barriers and ensuring that services for people with ADHD are informed by the needs of those who use them.
Cal is also proudly neurodivergent, having ADHD himself.
Derek Watson is a Chartered Graphic Designer and Visual Scribe, running his own creative consultancy, CanalPath Creative Ltd which is based in Edinburgh.
He is passionate about sustainability and the impact of design decisions on the environment. After working in several design agencies in London and Edinburgh, and later as a freelance designer, he co‑founded The G2G3 Group in 2000 and helped grow it into a global business, leading to its acquisition by Capita plc in 2013, before exiting the company in 2017.
Derek has mentored businesses through the RBS Business Accelerator, mentors students at Edinburgh College, and shares his expertise with both users and Adobe’s development teams as an Adobe Community Expert.
He is also delighted to support ADHD Scotland, drawing on his own lived experience with ADHD, and looks forward to helping the charity continue to grow and evolve.
Livvi Brooks is a dual qualified additional support needs teacher and inclusion specialist, working across primary and secondary schools. She has worked within mainstream education and differing levels of additional support needs provision across Scotland.
She currently works in secondary schools in a consultation and advisory role around autism. She particularly enjoys working with young people and feels that her lived experience as a multiply neurodivergent person means that she can have positive and lasting relationships. She enjoys research and providing training around areas of interest such as demand avoidance, masking and making environments more accessible. Livvi is particularly keen in supporting families around the neurodivergent experience and making school and home routines less challenging.
Livvi is committed to improving access to evidence-informed support, amplifying lived experience, and contributing to strategic decision-making that strengthens services across Scotland for neurodivergent people and their families.
Dr Errol Jones-Rivera is a Senior Academic Developer, Deputy Programme Coordinator for Certification for Academic Practice, and Lecturer of pedagogy at the University of Glasgow. His research and practice focus on applied social psychology in learning and assessment design to enable belonging, learning, and performance by reducing barriers to engagement.
Originally from an impoverished background and nearly failing out of school, every college, and university in which he was enrolled, Errol was diagnosed with ADHD (Inattentive Type) in his early 20s. It was Scottish Higher Education that gave him the opportunity to change his life, and since 2013 has dedicated himself to paying it back by supporting its teachers and students.
As a researcher and academic developer, Errol specialises in consolidating research from multiple fields to create learning and assessment design methods, teaching and coaching staff how to more easily embed inclusivity, and advising on institutional matters related to effective and inclusive learning.
Jill Dykes is founder and Chief Executive Officer of ADHD Scotland. Jill has over 20 years of experience in business development spanning academia, innovation, technology and high growth start-ups, and the 3rd sector.
Most recently, she was founder and Director of the Glasgow School of Computing Science Innovation lab, founded and co-led an Industry Advisory Board, led on the formation of new CPD programmes, and worked on the creation of a Graduate Apprenticeship Programme. She also co-founded a not-for-profit in-house software development service staffed by professional project managers and student developers as a skills development initiative.
Jill has a BSc Hons in Psychology. Her early career involved roles experience working with young people leaving local authority care, in mental health care in the community, and as a counsellor on a national helpline for teenagers.
Jill was diagnosed with ADHD in her 40s and is a parent to 2 AuDHD teenage children.