Antonia Catherine Lyons is a critical health psychologist and academic at the University of Auckland.

[2] Her first academic post was as lecturer in health psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK, from 1996 to 2002.

She returned to Massey University (NZ; Albany and Wellington campuses) and rose to professor at this institution.

In 2009, Lyons received a Marsden Fund grant to study young adults, their drinking and social media called 'Young Adults, Drinking Stories and the Cult of Celebrity.

'[3] In 2004 Lyons received a fast-start Marsden Fund grant called 'Working hard, playing hard: Gender relations and alcohol consumption'.