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Faculty Member, Faculty of Health and Social Care

Lecturer

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Dr Arai is a Lecturer in Children and Young People in the Faculty of Health and Social Care.

After a degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Goldsmiths' College, she completed a MSc in Medical Demography at the Centre for Population Studies (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and a PhD at Queen Mary on neighbourhood effects on teenage pregnancy.


Dr Arai has worked in academic research for over a decade in a variety of institutions including the Medical Research Council, City University and the Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education. She has published papers on a range of topics, and has special interests in teenage pregnancy and motherhood, the surveillance of children and the family, factors affecting the implementation of interventions, evidence-based policy-making and practice and methodological innovation in the public health sciences.

Her book 'Teenage Pregnancy: the Making and Unmaking of a Problem' will be available from the Policy Press in Summer 2009. 

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