Dr Amanda Hughes
BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ESRC NIRG: Improving understanding of weight stigma with causal inference methods and general population survey data
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2025
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2024Maternal depressive symptoms and young people's higher education participation and choice of university
Journal of Affective Disorders
BMI and Well-being in people of East Asian and European Ancestry
Translational Psychiatry
Mediators of the association between childhood body mass index and educational attainment
Pediatric Obesity
Mendelian Randomisation study of Body Composition and Depression in people of East Asian Ancestry highlights potential setting-specific causality
BMC Medicine
Weight stigma, welfare stigma, and political values
Social Science & Medicine