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Staff Member Biography

Kasia Banas

position: Research Assistantprogramme: Evaluating the Health Effects of Social Interventions

Contact Details

email:
phone: 0141 357 3949 (switchboard)

Address

MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
4 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8RZ

Biography and Interests

Kasia Banas graduated from University College Utrecht in 2003, with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences. She went on to do an MSc in Psychology of Individual Differences at the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Social Psychology at the VU University Amsterdam. She joined the Unit in August 2009, and she is involved in preparing a systematic review of welfare-to-work interventions for lone parents.

Kasia’s other research interests include the health consequences of being a victim of discrimination and social exclusion, ways to improve self-regulation, and the benefits of having multiple identities.

Publications

Gibson M, Thomson H, Banas K, Bambra C, Fenton C, Bond L. Welfare to work interventions and their effects on health and well-being of lone parents and their children [Protocol]. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (in press).