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Biography

Dr Lotte Elton is an academic GP and researcher. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's contributing to the Social Responses to Stigma project. She was an Academic Clinical Fellow at King's 2021-2025 during her academic GP training. She is particularly interested in how the growing emphasis on people 'self-managing' their health might lead to or worsen stigma.

Alongside her role at King's, she is an NIHR SPCR Clinical Doctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Her PhD research explores communication about blood tests in GP settings, aiming to improve the way that primary care staff discuss the limitations and risks of blood tests with patients.

She holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.