Dr. Laura Sochas: Curriculum Vitae and Publications
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Current academic appointments
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh
(to be appointed as a Chancellor’s Fellow in 2025)
Education
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2020 PhD in Population Studies/Demography, London School of Economics. London, UK
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2016 MSc in Social Research Methods, London School of Economics, London, UK
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2011 Masters of Public Administration (International Development), London School of Economics, London, UK
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2007 BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (First Class Hons), University of Oxford, Merton College, UK
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Employment History
2020-2022 Postdoctoral researcher in the political economy of health. Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
2019-2020 Research officer. Adolescents, contraception and abortion in Malawi, Ethiopia and Zambia, London School of Economics.
2019 Research assistant. Causal impact of retirement on health in UK women. Worklong project, Kings College London.
2019 Research assistant. Interviewer effects and abortion in African DHS, London School of Economics.
2011-2015 Technical Advisor. Options Consultancy Services, London.
Research Awards
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2023 British Society of Population Studies Early Career Award. September 2023
2022-2025 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. “Policing Reproduction via Migration and Family Policies: Stress, Stigma & Health”.
2021-2022 ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. “Health Risk - A social determinants of health strategy game for trade unions”. 04/2021-03/2022 (£19,739)
2021 Titmuss Prize for outstanding PhD Thesis in Social Policy at LSE for 2020/21.
2017-2019 ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Award
2015-2019 ESRC Doctoral Studentship
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Publications
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Reeves, A., Sochas, L. “When do democratic transitions reduce or increase mortality? Exploring the role of non-violent resistance.” Social Science & Medicine. December 2022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115459
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SSochas, L., Reeves, A. “Does collective bargaining reduce health inequalities between labour market insiders and outsiders?”. Socio-Economic Review. September 2022; https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwac052
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Sochas, L. (2021) “Challenging categorical thinking: a mixed methods approach to explaining health inequalities”. Social Science & Medicine. July 2021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114192
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Leone, T., Sochas, L., Coast, E. (2021) "Depends who's asking: interviewer effects in Demographic and Health Surveys abortion data". Demography. January 2021; https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8937468
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Sochas, L. (2020) The predictive power of health system environments: a novel approach to explaining inequalities in access to maternal healthcare. BMJ Global Health. February 2020; 4:e002139 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002139
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Sochas, L. (2019) Women who break the rules: Social exclusion and inequities in pregnancy and childbirth experiences in Zambia. Social Science & Medicine. 232, pp.278-288. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.013
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Sochas, L., Channon, A. & Nam, S. (2017) Counting indirect crisis-related deaths in the context of a low- resilience health system: the case of maternal and neonatal health during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. Health Policy and Planning. 32 (suppl. 3), pp.ii32-ii39. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czx108
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ten Hoope Bender, P., Nove, A., Sochas, L., Matthews, Z., Homer, C., Pozo Martin, F. (2017) The 'Dream Team' for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health: an adjusted service target model to estimate the ideal mix of health care professionals to cover population need. Human Resources for Health. 15:46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-017-0221-4
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Campbell, J., Sochas, L., Cometto, G., Matthews, Z. (2016) Evidence for action on improving the maternal and newborn health workforce: the basis for quality care. International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. 132 (1). January 2016. pp.126-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.11.003
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