Laura Fenton

Dr Fenton is a Research Associate in Public Health at the University of Sheffield and in Geography at the University of Manchester. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. Her PhD used biographical and life history methods to explore different generations of British women's relationships to alcohol across the lifecourse. Since finishing her PhD, she has worked on projects on youth, generation and the life-course, including the ESRC funded Girlhood and Later Life project and the UKRI funded Austerity and Altered Life-Courses project at the University of Manchester, and the Wellcome funded Youth Drinking in Decline project at the University of Sheffield. She is especially interested in how young people’s transitions into adulthood act as a litmus test for the state of societies – the nature and extent of (in)equality, social (in)justice, the quality of life they offer - and how this changes over time.