Instructor

Claire Thompson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research interests focus on place-based inequalities, particularly in relation to food, health and wellbeing. Specifically, she is interested in food and alcohol environments, food poverty, dietary health inequalities, food policy, and urban regeneration.

Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, Claire was based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working on a variety of projects including Olympic regeneration, alcohol licensing, and a Wellcome Trust Society and Ethics fellowship investigating the health and wellbeing challenges of foodbanking. She completed a PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London.