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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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Adapt-Ed: Co-designing adaptations to a whole school intervention to improve the uptake and impact of food provision in special schools
O'Connell, R. (PI), Ludlow, A. (CoI), Brady, L.-M. (CoI), Wellsted, D. (CoI) & Hamilton, L. (CoI)
NIHR - National Institute for Health Research - Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
1/06/24 → 30/11/24
Project: Research
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The 'School Food Partnership' Pilot with Buckinghamshire Secondary Schools
Hamilton, L. (PI) & Dickinson, A. (CoI)
1/12/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Dietary Inequalities and Families with 'No Recourse to Public Funds' (NRPF) in the UK
Hamilton, L. (PI), Thompson, C. (CoI) & Wills, W. (CoI)
1/10/21 → 13/12/22
Project: Research
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Informing the Hertfordshire Food Poverty Needs Assessment
Hamilton, L. (CoPI) & Dickinson, A. (CoPI)
4/01/21 → 31/08/21
Project: Research
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Families and Food in Hard Times
O'Connell, R. (PI), Brannen, J. (Researcher), Owen, C. (Researcher), Simon, A. (Researcher), Knight, A. (Researcher), Hamilton, L. (Researcher), Skuland, S. (Researcher), Ramos, V. (Researcher), Truninger, M. (Researcher) & Augusto, F. (Researcher)
1/05/14 → 30/04/19
Project: Research
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Hostile Environments: Immigration and Food Poverty in the UK
Hamilton, L., Thompson, C. & Wills, W., 13 Dec 2022, University of Hertfordshire. 30 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
Thompson, C., Hamilton, L., Dickinson, A., Fallaize, R., Mathie, E., Rogers, S. & Wills, W., 30 Nov 2022, In: Health & Place. 78, 22 p., 102906.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Informing the Hertfordshire Food Poverty Needs Assessment: Household Experiences of Food Poverty and Support Service Provision in Hertfordshire
Hamilton, L. & Dickinson, A., 27 Aug 2021, Hatfield, UK: University of Hertfordshire. 39 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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The Buckinghamshire ‘School Food Partnership’ Programme
Hamilton, L. & Dickinson, A., 15 Aug 2024, University of Hertfordshire. 8 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Building a health and wellbeing research partnership with children and their families in deprived neighbourhoods in Stevenage
Jones, J., Mathie, E., Hamilton, L., Berman, H., Thompson, C., Wills, W., Carson, C., Chapman, A. & Vaithilingham, P., 1 Feb 2022, University of Hertfordshire.Research output: Book/Report › Other report