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Dr Becca Lacey

Reader in Social and Lifecourse Epidemiology
Lifecourse social epidemiologist

Becca is a social epidemiologist who applies a lifecourse approach to look at aspects of family life and lifecourse health. Particular areas of interest are early life adversities (adverse childhood experiences), young carers and lifecourse mental health.

All of her work uses longitudinal datasets, including the British birth cohorts, Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS or "Understanding Society"). 

Becca is currently working on three research projects:

  • YoungCare (2023-2026), investigating inequalities and long-term outcomes of young carers in the UK [funded by Nuffield Foundation]
  • PACO (2023-2025), exploring the effects of child physical punishment in the UK [funded by Nuffield Foundation]
  • ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (2022-2027)

Becca has an MSc Social Epidemiology and PhD in Epidemiology from UCL (Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health). From 2012-2016 Becca worked as a post-doc on a ERC funded project mapping the work, family and partnership histories of the 1946, 1958 and 1970 British birth cohort members and looking at relationships with health from mid-life onwards. She then worked on a project investigating the lifecourse predictors and consequents of unpaid caregiving in the 1958 British birth cohort and UKHLS. From 2018-2021 Becca led an ESRC funded project investigating the clustering of early life adversities and associations with lifecourse mental health and stress biomarkers using the MCS, ALSPAC and 1958 British birth cohort. She also worked at that time on a Nuffield funded project looking at the long-term outcomes of looked after children using the ONS-Longitudinal Study. Since 2021 she has continued to work on the topics of unpaid caregiving and early life adversities (particularly domestic violence).

 

Education

PhD Epidemiology, UCL (2012)

MSc Social Epidemiology, UCL (2008)

BSc (Hons) Human Biology & Health Studies, University of Wolverhampton (2007)

 

Markers of esteem

Wellcome Trust Early Career Award interview panel member

UKRI Future Research Leaders review college member

Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Scientific Advisory group member for families theme

Committee member for Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health ACEs special interest group

Becca is currently working on three research projects:

 

Stock, S, Lacey, R, Arsenault, L, Caspi, A, Crush, E, Danese, A, Latham, R, Moffitt, T, Newbury, J, Schaefer, J, Fisher, H and Baldwin, J (2024) ‘Can a warm and supportive adult protect against mental health problems amongst children with experience of adversity? A twin-differences study’ Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry

Grant, C, Powell, C, Lacey, R, Woodman, J (2024) ‘Perinatal healthcare for women at risk of children’s social care involvement: a qualitative study of professionals in England’ BMJ Open, 14, e082914

Xue, B, King, M, Lacey, R, Deindl, C, Di Gessa, G, Wahrendorf, M and McMunn, A (2023) ‘Do health and wellbeing change around the transition to informal caring in early adulthood? A longitudinal comparison between the UK and Germany’ Journal of Adolescent Health, in press

Sacker, A, Murray, E, Maughan, B and Lacey, R (2023) ‘Social care in childhood and adult outcomes: double whammy for minority children?’ Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, https://doi.org/10.1332/17579597Y2023D000000008

Sacker, A, Lacey, R, Maughan, B and Murray, E (2023) ‘Is foster caring associated with an earlier transition to adulthood for caregivers’ own children? ONS Longitudinal Study’ Adoption & Fostering, in press

Lacey, R, Xue, B, Di Gessa, G, Lu, W and McMunn, A ‘Mental and physical health changes around transitions into unpaid caregiving: a longitudinal, propensity score analysis’ Lancet Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00206-2

Grant, C, Powell, C, Philip, G, Blackburn, R, Lacey, R and Woodman, J (2023) ‘On paper, you’re normal’: narratives of unseen health needs among women who have had children removed from their care. Journal of Public Health,  https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad137

King, M, Xue, B, Lacey, R, Di Gessa, G, Wahrendorf, M, McMunn, A and Deindl, C (2023) ‘Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?’ Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000454

Ning, K, Gondek, D, Pinto Pereira, S and Lacey, R (2023) ‘Mediating mechanisms of the relationship between exposure to deprivation and threat during childhood and adolescent psychopathology: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study.’ European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-023-02289-3

Priest, N, Guo, S, Gondek, D, O’Connor, M, Moreno-Betancur, M, Gray, S, Lacey, R, Burgner, D, Woolfenden, S, Badland, H, Williams, K, Redmond, G, Juonala, M, Lange, K and Goldfeld, S (2023) ‘The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: a causal mediation analysis.’ Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219617

Syed, S, Gilbert, R, Feder, G, Howe, L, Powell, C, Howarth, C, Deighton, J & Lacey, R (2023) Family adversity and health characteristics associated with intimate partner violence in children and parents presenting to healthcare: a population-based birth cohort study in England. Lancet Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00119-6

Lacey, R. E., Di Gessa, G., Xue, B., & McMunn, A. (2023). Inequalities in associations between young adult caregiving and social relationships: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study.. Journal of adolescence. doi:10.1002/jad.12202

Grant, C., Radley, J., Philip, G., Lacey, R., Blackburn, R., Powell, C., & Woodman, J. (2023). Parental health in the context of public family care proceedings: A scoping review of evidence and interventions.. Child abuse & neglect, 140, 106160. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106160

Xue, B., Lacey, R. E., Di Gessa, G., & McMunn, A. (2023). Does providing informal care in young adulthood impact educational attainment and employment in the UK?. Advances in Life Course Research, 56, 100549. doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2023.100549

Chandrasekar, R., Lacey, R. E., Chaturvedi, N., Hughes, A. D., Patalay, P., & Khanolkar, A. R. (2023). Adverse childhood experiences and the development of multimorbidity across adulthood-a national 70-year cohort study. AGE AND AGEING, 52(4). doi:10.1093/ageing/afad062

Lacey, R. (2023). Network Analysis as an Emerging Method in Adversity Research - a Reflection on Pollman et al. (2022). RESEARCH ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. doi:10.1007/s10802-023-01063-y

Gondek, D., Howe, L. D., Gilbert, R., Feder, G., Howarth, E., Deighton, J., & Lacey, R. E. (2023). Association of Interparental Violence and Maternal Depression With Depression Among Adolescents at the Population and Individual Level.. JAMA network open, 6(3), e231175. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.1175

Bridger Staatz, C., Kelly, Y., Lacey, R. E., & Hardy, R. (2023). Investigating the factorial structure and measurement invariance of the parent-reported strengths and difficulties questionnaire at 11 years of age from the UK Millennium Cohort Study.. European child & adolescent psychiatry. doi:10.1007/s00787-023-02156-1

Gondek, D., Feder, G., Howe, L. D., Gilbert, R., Howarth, E., Deighton, J., & Lacey, R. E. (2023). Factors mitigating the harmful effects of intimate partner violence on adolescents' depressive symptoms—A longitudinal birth cohort study. JCPP Advances, 3(1). doi:10.1002/jcv2.12134

Koyama, Y., Hidalgo, A. P. C., Lacey, R. E., White, T., Jansen, P. W., Fujiwara, T., & Tiemeier, H. (2023). Poverty from fetal life onward and child brain morphology.. Scientific reports, 13(1), 1295. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28120-2

Priest, N., Guo, S., Gondek, D., Lacey, R. E., Burgner, D., Downes, M., . . . O'Connor, M. (2022). The effect of adverse and positive experiences on inflammatory markers in Australian and UK children.. Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 26, 100550. doi:10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100550

Di Gessa, G., Xue, B., Lacey, R., & McMunn, A. (2022). Young Adult Carers in the UK-New Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19(21). doi:10.3390/ijerph192114076

Lacey, R. E., Gondek, D., Smith, B. J., Smith, A. D. A. C., Dunn, E. C., & Sacker, A. (2022). Testing lifecourse theories characterising associations between maternal depression and offspring depression in emerging adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13699

Lacey, R. E., Xue, B., & McMunn, A. (2022). The mental and physical health of young carers: a systematic review.. The Lancet. Public health, 7(9), e787-e796. doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00161-x

Karamanos, A., Stewart, K., Harding, S., Kelly, Y., & Lacey, R. E. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent drug use in the UK: The moderating role of socioeconomic position and ethnicity.. SSM - population health, 19, 101142. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101142

Miller, N. E., & Lacey, R. E. (2022). Childhood adversity and cardiometabolic biomarkers in mid-adulthood in the 1958 British birth cohort.. SSM - population health, 19, 101260. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101260

Guo, S., O'Connor, M., Mensah, F., Olsson, C. A., Goldfeld, S., Lacey, R. E., . . . Priest, N. (2022). Measuring Positive Childhood Experiences: Testing the Structural and Predictive Validity of the Health Outcomes From Positive Experiences (HOPE) Framework. ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS, 22(6), 942-951. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2021.11.003

Deng, K., & Lacey, R. E. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences, child poverty, and adiposity trajectories from childhood to adolescence: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY, 46(10), 1792-1800. doi:10.1038/s41366-022-01185-1

Iob, E., Lacey, R., Giunchiglia, V., & Steptoe, A. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and severity levels of inflammation and depression from childhood to young adulthood: a longitudinal cohort study. MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, 27(4), 2255-2263. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01478-x

Crick, D. C. P., Halligan, S. L., Howe, L. D., Lacey, R. E., Khandaker, G. M., Burgner, D., . . . Fraser, A. (2022). Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences and the novel inflammatory marker glycoprotein acetyls in two generations of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children birth cohort.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 100, 112-120. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2021.11.001

McMunn, A., Lacey, R., Worts, D., Kuh, D., McDonough, P., & Sacker, A. (2021). Work-family life courses and psychological distress: Evidence from three British birth cohort studies.. Advances in life course research, 50, 100429. doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100429

Gondek, D., Patalay, P., & Lacey, R. E. (2021). Adverse childhood experiences and multiple mental health outcomes through adulthood: A prospective birth cohort study. SSM - Mental Health, 1, 100013. doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100013

Gondek, D., Lacey, R. E., Blanchflower, D. G., & Patalay, P. (2022). How is the distribution of psychological distress changing over time? Who is driving these changes? Analysis of the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts.. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 57(5), 1007-1016. doi:10.1007/s00127-021-02206-6

Staatz, C. B., Kelly, Y., Lacey, R. E., & Hardy, R. (2021). Area-level and family-level socioeconomic position and body composition trajectories: longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.. The Lancet. Public health, 6(8), e598-e607. doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(21)00134-1

Bridger Staatz, C., Kelly, Y., Lacey, R. E., Blodgett, J. M., George, A., Arnot, M., . . . Hardy, R. (2021). Life course socioeconomic position and body composition in adulthood: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY, 45(11), 2300-2315. doi:10.1038/s41366-021-00898-z

Bridger Staatz, C., Kelly, Y., Lacey, R. E., Blodgett, J. M., George, A., Arnot, M., . . . Hardy, R. (2021). Socioeconomic position and body composition in childhood in high- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY, 45(11), 2316-2334. doi:10.1038/s41366-021-00899-y

Sacker, A., Murray, E., Lacey, R., & Maughan, B. (2021). Lifelong consequences from experiences of care? Findings from the Looked-after Children Grown up Project. Nuffield Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/

Gilbert, R., & Lacey, R. (2021). Intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment. LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH, 6(7), E435-E436. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00076-1

Tommerup, K., & Lacey, R. E. (2021). Maternal and Paternal Distress in Early Childhood and Child Adiposity Trajectories: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. OBESITY, 29(5), 888-899. doi:10.1002/oby.23150

Bevilacqua, L., Kelly, Y., Heilmann, A., Priest, N., & Lacey, R. E. (2021). Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence.. Child abuse & neglect, 112, 104890. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104890

Lacey, R. E., Bartley, M., Kelly-Irving, M., Bevilacqua, L., Iob, E., Kelly, Y., & Howe, L. D. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences and early life inflammation in the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children.. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 122, 104914. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104914

Iob, E., Lacey, R., & Steptoe, A. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms in later life: Longitudinal mediation effects of inflammation.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 90, 97-107. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.07.045

McMunn, A., Lacey, R., & Webb, E. (2020). Life course partnership and employment trajectories and parental caregiving at age 55: prospective findings from a British Birth Cohort Study. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 11(4), 495-518. doi:10.1332/175795920x15825061704853

Murray, E. T., Lacey, R., Maughan, B., & Sacker, A. (2020). Non-parental care in childhood and health up to 30 years later: ONS Longitudinal Study 1971-2011. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 30(6), 1121-1127. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaa113

Li, L., & Lacey, R. E. (2020). Does the association of child maltreatment with adult cardiovascular disease differ by gender?. Heart (British Cardiac Society), 106(17), 1289-1290. doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2020-316991

Lacey, R. E., Howe, L. D., Kelly-Irving, M., Bartley, M., & Kelly, Y. (2022). The Clustering of Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Are Gender and Poverty Important?. JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, 37(5-6), 2218-2241. doi:10.1177/0886260520935096

Lacey, R. E., Pinto Pereira, S. M., Li, L., & Danese, A. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences and adult inflammation: Single adversity, cumulative risk and latent class approaches.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 87, 820-830. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.03.017

Iob, E., Lacey, R., & Steptoe, A. (2020). The long-term association of adverse childhood experiences with C-reactive protein and hair cortisol: Cumulative risk versus dimensions of adversity.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 87, 318-328. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2019.12.019

Murray, E. T., Lacey, R., Maughan, B., & Sacker, A. (2020). Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later: Office of National Statistics Longitudinal Study.. BMC public health, 20(1), 735. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08867-3

Correction: <i>Age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in the 1958 british birth cohort</i> (2020). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(1), 104. doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208196corr1

Bridger Staatz, C., Kelly, Y., Lacey, R., & Hardy, R. (2019). Socioeconomic position and body composition across the life course: a systematic review protocol.. Systematic reviews, 8(1), 263. doi:10.1186/s13643-019-1197-z

Lacey, R. E., & Minnis, H. (2020). Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores - Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice.. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 61(2), 116-130. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13135

Lacey, R. E., McMunn, A., & Webb, E. (2019). Informal caregiving patterns and trajectories of psychological distress in the UK Household Longitudinal Study. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, 49(10), 1652-1660. doi:10.1017/S0033291718002222

Lacey, R. E., McMunn, A., & Webb, E. (2018). Informal caregiving and markers of adiposity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study. PLOS ONE, 13(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200777

Lacey, R., McMunn, A., & Webb, E. (2018). Heterogeneity in caregiver population studies Reply. MATURITAS, 112, 95. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.03.002

Stafford, M., Lacey, R., Murray, E., Carr, E., Fleischmann, M., Stansfeld, S., . . . McMunn, A. (2019). Work-family life course patterns and work participation in later life.. European journal of ageing, 16(1), 83-94. doi:10.1007/s10433-018-0470-7

Chen, M., & Lacey, R. E. (2018). Adverse childhood experiences and adult inflammation: Findings from the 1958 British birth cohort.. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 69, 582-590. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.02.007

Lacey, R. E., McMunn, A., & Webb, E. A. (2018). Informal caregiving and metabolic markers in the UK Household Longitudinal Study.. Maturitas, 109, 97-103. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.01.002

Zilanawala, A., Abell, J., Bell, S., Webb, E., & Lacey, R. (n.d.). Parental nonstandard work schedules during infancy and children’s BMI trajectories. Demographic Research, 37, 709-726. doi:10.4054/demres.2017.37.22

Webb, E. A., Bell, S., Lacey, R. E., & Abell, J. G. (2017). Crossing the road in time: Inequalities in older people's walking speeds.. Journal of transport & health, 5, 77-83. doi:10.1016/j.jth.2017.02.009

Lacey, R. E., Kumari, M., Sacker, A., & McMunn, A. (2017). Age at first birth and cardiovascular risk factors in the 1958 British birth cohort. JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 71(7), 691-698. doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208196

Martindale, S. E., & Lacey, R. E. (2017). Parental separation in childhood and adult smoking in the 1958 British birth cohort.. European journal of public health, 27(4), 723-728. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckw265

Lacey, R. E., Sacker, A., Bell, S., Kumari, M., Worts, D., McDonough, P., . . . McMunn, A. (2017). Work-family life courses and BMI trajectories in three British birth cohorts.. International journal of obesity (2005), 41(2), 332-339. doi:10.1038/ijo.2016.197

Lacey, R. E., Zilanawala, A., Webb, E., Abell, J., & Bell, S. (2018). Parental absence in early childhood and onset of smoking and alcohol consumption before adolescence.. Archives of disease in childhood, 103(7), 691-694. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2016-310444

Lacey, R. E., Kumari, M., Sacker, A., Stafford, M., Kuh, D., & McMunn, A. (2016). Work-Family Life Courses and Metabolic Markers in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development. PLOS ONE, 11(8). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161923

Academic careers: what do early career researchers think? (2017). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71(2), 207-208. doi:10.1136/jech-2016-207438

Sacker, A., Bartley, M., & Lacey, R. E. (2016). Never too early, never too late. UCL. Retrieved from https://www.ucl.ac.uk/

McMunn, A., Lacey, R. E., Kumari, M., Worts, D., McDonough, P., & Sacker, A. (2016). Work-family life courses and metabolic markers in mid-life: evidence from the British National Child Development Study.. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 70(5), 481-487. doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206036

McMunn, A., Lacey, R., Worts, D., McDonough, P., Stafford, M., Booker, C., . . . Sacker, A. (2015). De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: A multi-channel sequence analysis. Advances in Life Course Research, 26, 60-75. doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2015.06.002

Lacey, R. E., Sacker, A., Kumari, M., Worts, D., McDonough, P., Booker, C., & McMunn, A. (2016). Work-family life courses and markers of stress and inflammation in mid-life: evidence from the National Child Development Study.. International journal of epidemiology, 45(4), 1247-1259. doi:10.1093/ije/dyv205

Lacey, R., Stafford, M., Sacker, A., & McMunn, A. (2016). Work-Family Life Courses and Subjective Wellbeing in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the 1946 British birth cohort study).. Journal of population ageing, 9, 69-89. doi:10.1007/s12062-015-9126-y

Lacey, R. E., Kumari, M., & Bartley, M. (2014). Social isolation in childhood and adult inflammation: Evidence from the National Child Development Study. PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 50, 85-94. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.08.007

Lacey, R. E., Bartley, M., Pikhart, H., Stafford, M., & Cable, N. (2014). Parental separation and adult psychological distress: an investigation of material and relational mechanisms. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 14. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-272

Lacey, R. E., Kumari, M., & McMunn, A. (2013). Parental separation in childhood and adult inflammation: The importance of material and psychosocial pathways. PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, 38(11), 2476-2484. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.05.007

Kelly-Irving, M., Lepage, B., Dedieu, D., Lacey, R., Cable, N., Bartley, M., . . . Delpierre, C. (2013). Childhood adversity as a risk for cancer: findings from the 1958 British birth cohort study. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 13. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-767

Parental separation and adult psychological distress: evidence for the 'reduced effect' hypothesis? (n.d.). Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. doi:10.14301/llcs.v3i3.195

Lloyd, G., & Lacey, R. (2012). 21st century relationship: a data compendium. One Plus One. Retrieved from https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1347021/

Bartley, M., & Lacey, R. (2012). Life gets under your skin. UCL. Retrieved from https://www.ucl.ac.uk/

Lacey, R. E., Cable, N., Stafford, M., Bartley, M., & Pikhart, H. (2011). Childhood socio-economic position and adult smoking: are childhood psychosocial factors important? Evidence from a British birth cohort.. European journal of public health, 21(6), 725-731. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckq179

Lacey, R., Bartley, M., Pikhart, H., Cable, N., & Stafford, M. (2010). 010 Parental separation and psychological distress in early adulthood: has the effect reduced over time? Evidence from two British birth cohort studies. Journal of Epidemiology &amp; Community Health, 64(Suppl 1), A4. doi:10.1136/jech.2010.120956.10

Nuffield Foundation Grant ‘Inequalities in health, social participation, work and education of UK young carers’ £300,100.41 July 2023-March 2026 

Nuffield Foundation Grant ‘Physical punishment and child outcomes in the UK – a mixed methods study’ £338,343 April 2023-June 2025 

ESRC Centre legacy funding ‘International centre for lifecourse studies in society and health (ICLS)’ £100,000 April 2022-March 2027

JPI More Years Better Lives, Equality and Wellbeing across Generations (ESRC): ‘Inequalities in informal caregiving over the adult life course in Europe: social participation, health and the influence of Covid-19’ €1,043,127 May 2021 – April 2024

DHSC-Child Policy Research Unit: Mental health of parents exposed to interparental violence: effect on mental health/behavioural outcomes of their children and opportunities for intervention. October 2021-December 2023 

Longitudinal Studies small grant (ESRC): ‘Looked after children grown up: scoping study of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Census data’ £4400 October 2019-March 2022 

UCL Global Engagement grant ‘Cross-national comparison of childhood adversity clustering and relationships with biomarkers of stress in early life’ £2000 

ESRC New Investigator Grant: ‘Early life adversity and health: adversity clustering and life course health’ £290,354 Jan 2018-Oct 2021 

Nuffield project grant: ‘Looked after children grown up’ £180,643 Jan 2018-July 2021 

ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative grant: ‘Life course causes and consequences of caring: how do work and family histories influence caring, and how does caring influence health and wellbeing?’ £198,161 July 2016-December 2017 

Becca collaborates with other researchers at UCL, University of Bristol, University of Glasgow, City University, Anna Freud Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Australian National University, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Dusseldorf, Dortmund University, Centre for Demographic Studies (Barcelona), University of Oslo

Module lead for 'Evidence Based Practice' for Physicians Associate programme

SSC supervisor 

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