Benjamin Odin is a postdoctoral researcher at CIRCLE – the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities – at the University of Sheffield.
Benjamin completed his PhD in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in March 2026. His thesis explored the potential to use routinely collected police data to build a predictive risk assessment tool for first-time violent offending outcomes in adolescents. During his PhD, Benjamin spent a period of time working as a research assistant with the University of Leeds where he focused on the progression and delivery of the IMPROVE Trial. More recently, Benjamin has worked as a sessional research assistant at the University of Sheffield on the Prison Leavers Project and the Police Drug Deterrence Project. He has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Associate on several modules in Sociology, Criminology, and Economics.
Today, Benjamin works under the guidance and supervision of Professor Nathan Hughes. Benjamin’s work currently focuses on exploring health and education outcomes in children who are or who have been involved in the social care system. He is specifically interested in how different care trajectories can influence health and educational outcomes by the age of 16-years.
Research interests
- Adolescent offending and primary prevention strategies
- Social care trajectories and health and education outcomes
Social media
LinkedIn: /in/benjamin-odin
Publications
Hughes, N and Odin, B. (2026). Children’s pathways into and out of care in England, 2021–2025: a descriptive research briefing. Family Rights Group
R. Mackenzie, G. Gilworth, E. Godfrey, A. Spinou, T. Morgan, K. Harris, J. Kawalek, N. King, B. Odin, S. Lewin, Sjc Taylor, NS Hopkinson, J. Fox-Rushby, S. Ayis and P. White. (2025). The use of lay health workers in supporting patients with COPD to attend pulmonary rehabilitation: a qualitative study exploring the patient experience. European Respiratory Journal
Patrick T. White, Gill Gilworth, Benjamin Odin, Rebecca Mackenzie, Riddhi Daryanani Katherine Harris, Natalie King, Jessica Kawalek, Emma Godfrey, Arietta Spinou and Simon Lewin. (2025). Recruiting and training COPD patients as lay health workers in pulmonary rehabilitation to promote uptake and adherence to PR: the experience of PR staff and patients. European Respiratory Journal
Riddhi Daryanani, Gill Gilworth, Rebecca Mackenzie, Benjamin Odin, Natalie King, Jessica Kawalek, Emma Godfrey, Arietta Spinou, Katherine Harris, Simon Lewin and Patrick T White. (2025). The experience of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) lay health workers trained in behaviour change techniques to promote uptake and completion of PR in the IMPROVE trial. European Respiratory Journal
Gill Gilworth, Emma Godfrey, Arietta Spinou, Benjamin Odin, Katherine Harris, Jessica Kawalek, Natalie King, Toby Morgan, Simon Lewin, Stephanie Taylor, Nicholas Hopkinson, Julia Fox Rushby, Salma Ayis, Leslie Hamilton and Patrick T. White. (2025). Training pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) teams to recruit and train lay health workers to promote adherence to PR. European Respiratory Journal
Odin, B, Young, T and Hughes, N. (2023). A review of the different explanatory variables used to understand the influence of engagements with the police, social services, and the educational environment on youth violent offending, Wellcome Journal