Dr Laura Fenton

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Associate

ScHARR staff Dr Laura Fenton
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l.m.fenton@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2980

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Dr Laura Fenton
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
91Ö±²¥
S1 4DA
Profile

I joined the 91Ö±²¥ 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). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stevely AK, Gray LA, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M & Holmes J (2023) . Preventive Medicine Reports, 36. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fenton L & Tinkler P (2023) . Contemporary British History, 37(3), 339-366. RIS download Bibtex download
  • 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. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Burgess A, Yeomans H & Fenton L (2022) . The British Journal of Sociology, 73(4), 903-918. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stevely A, Vashishtha R, Fairbrother H, Fenton L, Henney M, Livingston M & Holmes J (2022) . European Journal of Public Health, 32(3), 354-359. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tinkler P, Cruz R & Fenton L (2021) . History of the Human Sciences, 34(3-4), 266-289. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fenton L (2019) . Sociology, 53(5), 977-978. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fitzgerald N, Angus K, Howell R, Labhart H, Morris J, Fenton L, Woodrow N, Castellina M, Oldham M, Garnett C , Holmes J et al () . Addiction. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lang L, Fenton L & Tinkler P () . Women's History Review, 1-16. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tinkler P, Fenton L & Lang L () . Ageing and Society, 1-23. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely AK & Holmes J () . Drug and Alcohol Review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Fenton L, Fairbrother H, Whitaker V, Henney M, Stevely A & Holmes J () . Journal of Youth Studies. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Caluzzi G, Fenton L, Holmes J, MacLean S, Pennay A, Fairbrother H & Törrönen J () . New Media & Society. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tinkler P, Fenton L & Cruz R () . The Sociological Review, 003802612211402-003802612211402. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Woodward S & Fenton L () . Frontiers in Sociology, 6. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

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