Dr Arabella Simpkin Begin, Founder

Arabella is a medical doctor, researcher, and author who specializes in the field of burnout and uncertainty. She is a tenured Fellow and Director of Medicine at Lincoln College, University of Oxford and has held faculty roles at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Imperial College, London. Arabella trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School and holds a DPhil in Pharmacology from the University of Oxford. Her keynote lectures and seminars have been delivered around the world and she has over 50 publications, including in The New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Arabella is excited to be part of a challenging phase of educational transformation and is committed to designing innovative approaches to the teaching of medicine. Arabella has formal training in cognitive and behavioural psychology, instructional design, and faculty development, and understands the science that underpins sustainable high performance and wellbeing.

Arabella has three beautiful children with her husband Sam who is also a physician and the family loves adventuring and spending time outside together. 

Dr Paul Simpkin, Executive Director

Paul is one of the pioneers of occupational health medicine in the United Kingdom. He qualified from St Thomas' Hospital, London in 1970, gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1974, and established his own practice in 1975. He has provided staff health and occupational health advice to many leading public and private sector organisations for over 45 years.

Paul has a particular interest helping to prevent and treat the medical aspects of stress and burnout in the workplace. He is now bringing his experience and expertise to Greyscale Spaces, driving forward this innovative organisation which aims to combat workplace stress.