PhD Student

Population Health Interventions

Current work and interests

Natalie is a PhD student, supervised by Dr Jean Adams and Dr Benjamin Hawkins, and is funded by the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship Programme. Natalie’s PhD will involve studying how ‘obesity’ and fat bodies are socially constructed in the field of public health and exploring the ethical and social justice implications of problematising fat bodies in public health policy. She is particularly interested in developing the use of post-structural discourse theory and related critical approaches to public health policy analysis

Background and experience

Natalie holds a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bristol and an MPhil in Public Health from the University of Cambridge. She has previously worked as a programme manager for an education start-up, and in a policy role at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK Government.