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Dr Laura Hamilton is a Research Fellow in Food and Social Policy at the University of Hertfordshire's Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), part of the School of Health and Social Work. She specializes in food poverty, social policy, and youth dietary practices, collaborating with local authorities and third-sector organizations. Her doctoral research at University College London (UCL) examined young people’s eating behaviors in economically constrained households.
Key research interests include: food policy, welfare reforms, austerity impacts, and dietary inequalities. She employs mixed-methods approaches combining quantitative data analysis (e.g., NDNS dataset) with qualitative methods like interviews and visual ethnography.
Recent projects include the NIHR-funded Adapt-Ed initiative (2024-2025) co-designing food provision interventions for special schools, and studies on immigration-related food insecurity (2022). She has contributed to policy briefs like the Hertfordshire Food Poverty Needs Assessment (2021) and published on pandemic-era food shopping shifts in East Anglia.
Current collaborations involve institutions like Buckinghamshire schools and advocacy groups addressing 'No Recourse to Public Funds' families' food access challenges. She supervises postgraduate research in food policy, school meal programs, and welfare systems.
