Lauren holds a first class Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Queen Mary, University of London and worked briefly as a bioinformatician at The Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine before joining the London – Loughborough Doctoral School at UCL.

Her MRes project studied the unintended consequences of an energy efficient home retrofit on childhood exposure to air pollution using modelling techniques. Lauren’s PhD collaborates with Public Health England and will further study childhood exposure to indoor air pollution in the home and other indoor environments, across socio-economic groups.