Robyn Bennetto

Robyn is a Researcher in the Health Policy team, having joined NatCen in April 2023. Since joining the team, she has worked on a range of sensitive and complex mixed-method projects including a project examining drug use and unmet needs within minority ethnic groups and a project looking at the stigmatisation and discrimination of people experiencing gambling harms. Recently she has been involved in a qualitative project on young disabled people’s experiences of building connections and loneliness for which she conducted several in-depth interviews. 

Prior to joining NatCen, Robyn completed a degree in Sociology at the University of Nottingham, focusing on inequalities, gender, and mental health, whilst gaining experience and knowledge in a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. For her dissertation she conducted a literature review alongside in-depth interviews, examining the sexualisation of women at university in nightclubs.