Dr Laura Roe
Lecturer
Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences
Mother and Infant Research Unit, School of Health Sciences
Healthy Active Ageing Research (HAAR), School of Health Sciences
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Biography
Laura Roe is a medical anthropologist interested in using ethnographic methods to better understand the lived experiences of people who use drugs, with a view to informing policy and practice.
Research
Her primary research interests concern how experiences of time and memory are shaped through polydrug use and how such experiences shape different aspects of everyday life, social relationships, and engagement with services.
Her recent ESRC-funded research explored the impacts of time on mental health, loneliness, access to health/harm reduction services, and service provision, as well as experiences of grief, trauma, overdose, and crises. Laura is similarly interested in the experiences of women and mothers who use drugs.