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I am a Research Fellow at the 糖心原创, working on Blair's Babies, a Leverhulme Trust-funded project led by Professor Stephen Farrall. The project draws on cohort studies to examine the long-term impact of New Labour's social policies on the life-courses of children growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Prior to this, I held a research fellowship at the University of Exeter, funded by ADR-UK, where I used the ECHILD dataset to investigate educational outcomes for children with acquired brain injury.
My broader research interests centre on the use of longitudinal, population-level, and administrative datasets to understand vulnerability to criminalisation in childhood. My work engages with structural and social determinants of crime, theories of cumulative disadvantage, and the impact of inequality across the life-course. I have a particular expertise in neurodisability, with extensive research examining the experiences of children with acquired brain injury and other neurodevelopmental conditions at the intersection of health, education, and justice systems.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher, and my qualifications include a BSc in Applied Psychology (Clinical), an MSc in Psychological Research Methods, and a PhD in Advanced Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, all from the University of Exeter, with my doctoral work co-supervised at the University of Bristol. During my PhD, I was an Alan Turing Institute Enrichment Scholar and was awarded a Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. I also co-ordinate both the ABI Justice Network and the TRYJustice Network.
Recent Publications
HOPE KENT, LEE HOGARTH, HUW WILLIAMS, ROSIE CORNISH and GEORGE LECKIE, 2025. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.
HOPE KENT, AMANDA KIRBY, GEORGE LECKIE, ROSIE CORNISH, LEE HOGARTH and HUW WILLIAMS, 2024. International Journal of Prisoner Health.
HOPE KENT, AMANDA KIRBY, LEE HOGARTH, GEORGE LECKIE, ROSIE CORNISH and HUW WILLIAMS, 2023. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law.