Laura joined the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health in February 2026 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Cohorts and Statistics platform (Data Hub). Her current work examines intersectional inequalities in mental health service use among young people, using longitudinal population study data linked with administrative records.

Before joining King’s, Laura was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary, University of London, where she researched adverse childhood experiences and adolescent mental health difficulties across intersecting social positions. Laura’s PhD (Birkbeck, University of London) focused on mapping the development of dimensional psychotic-like experiences and negative symptoms from late adolescence through emerging adulthood.

Laura is interested in integrating quantitative methods with theory and lived experience to improve how common and severe mental health difficulties are measured and modelled across diverse populations. She is particularly interested in the social and methodological conditions that shape what can and cannot be learned from existing data.

Research Interests

• Population mental health
• Psychosis spectrum
• Dimensional models of psychopathology
• Intersectional perspectives
• Quantitative approaches to mental health inequalities