Miss Lauren McMillan

Research Assistant

Institute for Social Marketing Stirling

Miss Lauren McMillan

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Lauren McMillan is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Marketing and Health (ISMH) at the University of Stirling.

She works on the qualitative work packages of an NIHR-funded project evaluating the public health impact of reforms to the way the UK government taxes alcohol, accounting for the ongoing effects of the cost-of-living crisis.

She previously worked on Project SCeTCH - a smoking cessation trial based in centres for people experiencing homelessness. The trial evaluated the effectiveness of offering an e-cigarette intervention plus 4 weeks worth of e-liquid vs usual care on smoking abstinence and changes in smoking behaviour. She was responsible for data collection across 6 Scottish sites and was part of the research team at Stirling who led the trial's mixed methods process evaluation.

Previously she was part of a DHSC-funded study that explored women's experiences of accessing contraceptive services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outputs (9)

Article

Ford A, McMillan L, Soar K, Pesola F, Notley C, Brown R, Ward E, Gardner B, Varley A, Mair C, Lennon J, Brierley J, Edwards A, Mitchell D & Robson D (2025) Exploring how an e-cigarette intervention influenced tobacco smoking behaviour in people accessing homelessness services: findings from the SCeTCH trial process evaluation. International Journal of Drug Policy, 143, Art. No.: 104901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104901


Article

Dawkins L, Soar K, Pesola F, Ford A, Notley C, Brown R, Ward E, McMillan L, Robson D, Varley A, Mair C, Lennon J, Brierley J, Edwards A & Hajek P (2025) Smoking cessation for people accessing homeless support centres (SCeTCH): comparing the provision of an E-cigarette versus Usual Care in a cluster randomised controlled trial in Great Britain. BMC Medicine, 23, Art. No.: 394. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04167-y


Conference Paper (unpublished)

McMillan L & Ford A (2024) Understanding the mechanisms through which an e-cigarette intervention produced changes in smoking behaviour among people accessing homelessness services: findings from a mixed methods process evaluation. Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA), Newcastle, 13.11.2024-15.11.2024.