Dr Clare Herrick
Lecturer
Email: clare.herrick@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1735
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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health
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consumption
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public health
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lifestyles
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political economy of food
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urban political ecology
Biography
Clare Herrick earned a first class BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 2002. She then completed her MA in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2004 where her research focused on agricultural biotechnology, food politics and the construction of consumption risks.
In 2007, she completed her PhD at University College London comparing the rationale and means of governing obesity as both a biomedical and discursive epidemic in London and Austin, Texas. In September 2007, Clare took up the position of lecturer in Human Geography in the Cities Group at King's.
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