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Dr. Ruth Cain is an Honorary Researcher at the University of Kent Law School specializing in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Her work spans family law, mental health law, and political economy, with particular expertise in digital health tracking, parenting politics, and welfare policy. She currently leads projects on digital quantification in mental health and the 'wellness industry' in collaboration with London community psychologists.
Her research explores intersections between law, cultural studies, and political economy, focusing on gendered impacts of welfare reforms, mental health policy, and neoliberal governance. Cain investigates how legal frameworks shape maternal responsibility and mental health discourse.
Cain's publications demonstrate sustained engagement with welfare policy critiques, feminist legal theory, and medical humanities. Her recent work analyzes Universal Credit reforms and mental health comorbidity, while earlier scholarship examines literary representations of motherhood and bioethical dimensions of obesity discourse.
She teaches undergraduate courses in Mental Health Law and Law & Literature, while supervising postgraduate research in family law, health inequalities, and women's health policy.
