Research Community

Dr Goodwin is an epidemiologist with expertise in the co-occurrence of Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and Common Mental Disorders (CMD) and military health research. She has been awarded grants from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Alcohol Change UK, with two previous projects funded by Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT). 

Laura is a Lecturer at King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London. She joined KCL in 2015 to study her PhD in alcohol misuse among UK Armed Forces personnel. Since then, Laura has worked as a postdoctoral researcher leading on a number of projects, including an exploration into the trajectories and phenomenology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the UK Armed Forces. Laura is a mixed methods researcher and conducts both epidemiological and qualitative analyses. Her research interests lie in cultural psychiatry, cultural manifestations of traumatic stress and anthropological perspectives of mental health problems.

Dr Laura Rafferty is a researcher at King’s Centre for Military Health Research at King’s College London.  She is currently working across a number of projects centred on exploring the experience of females within the Armed Forces, during transition out of the military and into civilian life.  Dr Rafferty is interested in understanding, and supporting, the mental health of the Armed Forces community and her previous research has spanned topics ranging from: exploring the impact of Post-Traumatic Disorder and Major Stress Disorder on the development of dementia in military Veterans; to developing an app to support military Veterans with their mental health (Met4Vet). 

Lauren is an Associate Professor of Women & Equalities at Anglia Ruskin University and Co-Director of the Centre for Military Women’s Research (CMWR). She is a mixed methods researcher with a background in psychiatric research and currently has funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research and the Office for Veterans Affairs for her research. Lauren’s main research interests include the needs and experiences of women during and after military service, and interpersonal/sexual violence in the military context.

Dr O’Malley is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime at University of York. She has a long-standing interest in military welfare issues generally, and has undertaken research with homeless Veterans and the Veteran charity housing sector. This includes ongoing work on evidence collection for Riverside Group’s development of a housing 'roadmap' for the Armed Forces Community. She is also the Chair of the Expert Advisory Board for the Centre for Evidence for the Armed Forces Community. 

Dr Louise Morgan is an academic psychologist with extensive research experience, including nearly a decade as research lead for London’s Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) and five years working in Veterans’ health. Her research interests include female Veterans, chronic pain and PTSD, and she has particular expertise in understanding the impact of sexual assault, patterns of sexual offending and the wider context of male-perpetrated violence against women and girls.