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Dr Laura Hamilton is a Research Fellow in Food and Social Policy. She is a member of the 'Food, Eating and Inequalities' (FEI) research group in the Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC). She often works in collaboration with local authorities and third sector organisations.

Laura uses an interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach for her research, which primarily focuses on food, poverty and social policy, including school food, state welfare benefits and access to support services. She is particularly interested in young people's food practices and the unequal impact of 'austerity', state welfare reforms and social policy on women.

Her doctoral research at UCL was linked to the multi-national ERC funded ‘Families and Food in Hard Times’ study. Her thesis focused on the role of family income and other factors (e.g. sex, age, socioeconomic) in understanding young people’s (aged 11 – 16 years) food and eating practices using a mixed-methods approach, including secondary quantitative analysis of the NDNS, qualitative interviews and visual methods (available here).

 

Dr Laura Hamilton is available to supervise postgraduate or doctoral students pursuing quantitative or mixed-methods research in the following (or related) areas:

  • Food and Eating Practices
  • Food Poverty and Insecurity
  • Dietary and Health Inequalities
  • Poverty, Income and State Welfare
  • School Food and Free School Meals

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