Dr Laura Noszlopy

Dr Laura Noszlopy

Institute of Applied Health Research
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Laura Noszlopy is a Research Fellow on the Perinatal Culture and Leadership Programme (PCLP) Evaluation, a project based in the School of Health Sciences. The PCLP Evaluation is using qualitative and ethnographic research methods to explore how an NHS England intervention has impacted leadership and working culture in maternity and neonatal units across the country.

Laura’s interdisciplinary research seeks to understand how policy interventions and legislation are interpreted and implemented in practice. She is particularly interested in exploring what can be lost or augmented in translation, and the real-life impacts of this process on individuals, organisations, and communities.

Laura is also research facilitator for the Criminal Law Reform Now Network, based at Birmingham Law School and the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and assistant editor of Indonesia and the Malay World at SOAS, University of London.

ORCiD iD: 0000-0001-9281-1414

Qualifications

  • PhD Sociocultural anthropology, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 2002
  • MA Advanced studies in the arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 1998
  • BA Hons. Comparative Religion, SOAS University of London, 1995

Biography

A qualitative researcher with a background in sociocultural anthropology, Laura has worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary, intercultural projects as a researcher, editor, and translator, and as a project manager and facilitator in higher education, publishing, and NGO settings. She values genuinely interdisciplinary research, and has worked on social policy, health and adult social care, law reform, cultural politics, and environmental issues in Southeast Asia and the UK. She has a longstanding interest in qualitative and sociolegal research methods, and in ethnographic, participatory, narrative, and biographical approaches.

Laura has recently shifted her research focus from Indonesian to UK social policy, examining how legislation and legal guidance is devised, interpreted, and implemented in various public sector settings. Recent University of Birmingham projects include a QR-funded rapid response study of the Prevent Duty in relation to other statutory safeguarding duties in schools and colleges across the West Midlands (2023-2024) at Birmingham Law School; a NIHR-School for Social Care Research funded Social Work with Older People project (2022-2023) in the School of Social Policy, and an ESRC-funded rapid response study on the impact of Covid-19 emergency legislation on social care provision (2020-2022) at Birmingham Law School. Prior to this, she was project manager and research fellow for ‘Enabling Wayang to Contribute to Environmental Discourse in Indonesia’, a collaborative, multilingual project between Royal Holloway, University of London and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, funded by a British Council-Newton Fund Institutional Links grant (2019-2020).

Publications

McHale J.V. & Noszlopy L. (in press) Adult social care law and policy: lessons from the pandemic. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Tanner D, Beedell P, Willis P, Nosowska G, Noszlopy L, Powell J, Ubhi M and Wakeham M. (2024) Social Work with Older People. SWOP Project Final Report. University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, Effective Practice.

Nosowska G, Tanner D, Willis P, Beedell P, Noszlopy L, Milne A and Geoghegan L. (2023) Don’t they deserve that really? How social workers can best support older people: Policy Briefing. BASW: Birmingham.

CLRNN (2023) Reforming the relationship between sexual consent, deception, and mistake: Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network.

Noszlopy L. (2022) ‘Under Pressure: social workers and older people’, NIHR School for Social Care Research Blog (12 December 2022).

Noszlopy L. & McHale J.V. (2021) ‘Adult social care was hit hard during the pandemic: it will need help to recover’ The Conversation (17 February 2022).

McHale J.V. & Noszlopy L. (2021) Adult Social Care under Pressure: Lessons from the Pandemic: Report. University of Birmingham.

CLRNN (2020) Reforming the Computer Misuse Act 1990: Report. Criminal Law Reform Now Network

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