Fenton, Laura, Dr

Dr Laura Fenton

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Associate

l.m.fenton@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2980

Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Dr Laura Fenton
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
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S1 4DA

Profile

I joined the ˮ�˷� Alcohol Research Group in 2021. I’m currently working as the lead qualitative research associate on Youth Drinking in Decline (Y-DiD), a Wellcome Trust funded mixed methods project which examines changes in youth drinking cultures over recent decades.

Before joining ScHARR I worked at the University of Manchester on the ESRC funded Girlhood and Later Life project (PI: Professor Penny Tinkler), which explored the youth transitions of women born in the United Kingdom between 1939-52, and the implications of youth experiences for later life. Both this and my current role build on research experience I gained through my PhD, which I completed in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester in 2018. My Phd thesis examines the changing place of alcohol in the day-to-day lives of three generations of British women.

Qualifications

PhD in Sociology, University of Manchester
Masters of Sociology, York University (Canada)
Honours Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto (Canada)

Research interests: In broad terms, my research interests include alcohol, youth, gender, the life course. social change, and creative biographical methods. I am particularly interested in using biographical and related qualitative methods to better understand people’s changing relationships to alcohol across both biographical and historical time.

Publications

Journal articles

Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Kersbergen I & Holmes J (2024) . PLoS ONE, 19(6).
Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M & Holmes J (2023) . Preventive Medicine Reports, 36.
Fenton L & Tinkler P (2023) . Contemporary British History, 37(3), 339-366.
Pennay A, Törrönen J, Herold MD, Fenton L, MacLean S, Caluzzi G, Fairbrother H, Frank VA, Samuelsson E & Holmes J (2022) . International Journal of Drug Policy, 108.
Burgess A, Yeomans H & Fenton L (2022) . The British Journal of Sociology, 73(4), 903-918.
Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M & Holmes J (2022) . European Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 354-359.
Tinkler P, Cruz R & Fenton L (2021) . History of the Human Sciences, 34(3-4), 266-289.
Fenton L (2019) . Sociology, 53(5), 977-978.
Lang L, Fenton L & Tinkler P () . Women's History Review, 1-16.
Tinkler P, Fenton L & Lang L () . Ageing and Society, 1-23.
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK & Holmes J () . Drug and Alcohol Review.
Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A & Holmes J () . Journal of Youth Studies.
Caluzzi G, Fenton L, Holmes J, MacLean S, Pennay A, Fairbrother H & Törrönen J () . New Media & Society.
Tinkler P, Fenton L & Cruz R () . The Sociological Review, 003802612211402-003802612211402.
Woodward S & Fenton L () . Frontiers in Sociology, 6.

Chapters

Dias-Lewandowska D, Fenton L, Goodman S & Kümin B (2022) , Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication (pp. 501-522). Routledge
Fenton L, Markham C & Wilkinson S (2022) , Youth Beyond the City (pp. 116-134). Bristol University Press
Yeomans H, Fenton L & Burgess A (2022) , Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course (pp. 151-176). Springer International Publishing
Thurnell-Read T & Fenton L (2022) , Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course (pp. 1-25). Springer International Publishing
Dias-Lewandowska D, Fenton L, Goodman S & Kümin B (2022) , Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication (pp. 501-522).
Cruz R, Tinkler P & Fenton L (2021) , Bioinformation Worlds and Futures (pp. 54-74). Routledge

Professional activities and memberships: I am a member of the British Sociological Association, and a former co-convenor of its Alcohol study Group. I am also a member and former social media officer of the Drinking Studies Network.