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Laura Sochas is a Chancellor's Fellow and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research critically examines how power, institutions, and social policies influence health inequalities through the lens of mixed methods. She takes a critical feminist perspective, engaging with intersectionality and Reproductive Justice theories. Her work has been published in high-impact journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Socio-Economic Review, Demography, Health Policy & Planning, and BMJ Global Health. As part of her role, she leads a project investigating the impacts of migration and family policies across Europe on parents’ rights and children's health outcomes. Additionally, she has a strong background in a variety of health-related research areas, including health service environments and indirect mortality effects during epidemics. She obtained her PhD in Demography from the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics in 2020 and has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Earlier in her career, she consulted on public health programmes in various African and South Asian countries for organizations such as UKAID and the Gates Foundation.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland
Leading research on how migration and family policies affect health inequities.
University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention • Oxford, England
Conducted research on health service environments and their impact on maternal health inequalities.
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