Lauren is a Research Fellow with the Defence, Industries and Society Programme.
Her research focuses on defence industry and community relations, the armed forces covenant, innovation in defence and peacebuilding.
She has organised and headed research trips in Europe and Africa conducting in-depth qualitative research through an ethnographic approach. She has a PhD from the University of Roehampton Business School which explores the subjective nature of post-conflict recovery in Sierra Leone. She has a double MA in International Relations from the University of Kent and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and a joint BA in Global Politics and English from Canterbury Christ Church University.
‘The Challenges to Innovation in UK Defence’, presented at 7th Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship - IE 2017 by Global Science & Technology Forum – GSTF, 27th-28th November, 2017, Singapore.
‘Who is Peacebuilding For? Finding the Marginalised Voices in the Liberal Peace’, presented at ISA's 56th Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 18th-21st, 2015.
‘Peace Zombies and the Cultural Implications for Development’, presented at Shaping Peace – Local Infrastructures and State Formation, Third Annual Conference of the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR Standing Group on Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, 11-12 September 2014, University of Manchester.