Laia Becares
Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science

Research

My research interests are in studying the determinants of inequalities in health, with a focus on life course effects. I am particularly interested in understanding the pathways by which the discrimination and marginalisation of people and places lead to social and health inequalities. This work has mostly focused on examining the association between racism and health, in order to understand how experiences of racial discrimination pattern people’s health and social outcomes, as well as that of their children. I am also interested in understanding how the accumulation of experienced discrimination across people’s lives determines their health as they age. I study these processes in the UK, as well as in collaboration with colleagues in the US, New Zealand, and Australia.

I am a Social Epidemiologist by training, and take an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach to my work. I collaborate with quantitative and qualitative Sociologists, Psychiatrists, Geographers, Demographers, and other Epidemiologists.

A list of my publications can be found here.