Ms Caroline Vaczy

  • Research Assistant (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

email: Caroline.Vaczy@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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Biography

I am a qualitative researcher interested in gender-based violence, health inequalities and using co-production and participatory approaches in research.

I became a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow in 2022 as part of the Creative Insights project and have since worked on co-producing advocacy videos about the marketing of unhealthy commodities to young people and the Equally Safe At School evaluation, all of which have involved working with young people and participatory methods.

Education

  • MSc Global Health and Development, University College London
  • BA French, University of Rochester

Research interests

Co-production, health inequalities, young people, gender-based violence

Publications

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2025

Smith, M. J. , Vaczy, C. and Hilton, S. (2025) Co-production of a youth advocacy video on the harms of e-cigarette advertising in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 40(2), daae097. (doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae097) (PMID:40037914)

Hamilton, C. et al. (2025) Evaluating a whole-school approach to addressing gender-based violence in Scottish secondary schools (Equally Safe at School): a study protocol for a type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial. BMJ Open, 15(2), e096596. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-096596) (PMID:39956602)

Fergie, G. , Smith, K., Vaczy, C., Mackenzie, M. and Hilton, S. (2025) Health inequalities and contemporary youth: young people’s accounts of the social determinants of health in an 'austere meritocracy'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), e13842. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13842) (PMID:39431898)

2024

Smith, M. , Vaczy, C. and Hilton, S. (2024) Co-production and the commercial determinants of health: producing a video on young people's exposure to unhealthy food marketing. Medical Research Archives, 12(7), (doi: 10.18103/mra.v12i7.5683)

Smith, M.J. , Vaczy, C., Kellerman, A., Tulloch, L. and Hilton, S. (2024) Young people’s perceptions of and exposure to unhealthy food advertising in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]

2023

Fergie, G. , Vaczy, C., Smith, K., Mackenzie, M. , Phan, T. T. and Hilton, S. (2023) Young people's perspectives on addressing UK health inequalities: utopian visions and preferences for action. Health Expectations, 26(6), pp. 2264-2277. (doi: 10.1111/hex.13825) (PMID:37427532) (PMCID:PMC10632646)

Hilton, S. , Vaczy, C., Buckton, C. , Patterson, C. and Smith, M. J. (2023) Expert views on high fat, salt and sugar food marketing policies to tackle obesity and improve dietary behaviours in the UK: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 23, 1951. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16821-2) (PMID:37814236) (PMCID:PMC10561510)

This list was generated on Sun Apr 20 06:16:13 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 7.

Articles

Smith, M. J. , Vaczy, C. and Hilton, S. (2025) Co-production of a youth advocacy video on the harms of e-cigarette advertising in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 40(2), daae097. (doi: 10.1093/heapro/daae097) (PMID:40037914)

Hamilton, C. et al. (2025) Evaluating a whole-school approach to addressing gender-based violence in Scottish secondary schools (Equally Safe at School): a study protocol for a type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial. BMJ Open, 15(2), e096596. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-096596) (PMID:39956602)

Fergie, G. , Smith, K., Vaczy, C., Mackenzie, M. and Hilton, S. (2025) Health inequalities and contemporary youth: young people’s accounts of the social determinants of health in an 'austere meritocracy'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), e13842. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13842) (PMID:39431898)

Smith, M. , Vaczy, C. and Hilton, S. (2024) Co-production and the commercial determinants of health: producing a video on young people's exposure to unhealthy food marketing. Medical Research Archives, 12(7), (doi: 10.18103/mra.v12i7.5683)

Fergie, G. , Vaczy, C., Smith, K., Mackenzie, M. , Phan, T. T. and Hilton, S. (2023) Young people's perspectives on addressing UK health inequalities: utopian visions and preferences for action. Health Expectations, 26(6), pp. 2264-2277. (doi: 10.1111/hex.13825) (PMID:37427532) (PMCID:PMC10632646)

Hilton, S. , Vaczy, C., Buckton, C. , Patterson, C. and Smith, M. J. (2023) Expert views on high fat, salt and sugar food marketing policies to tackle obesity and improve dietary behaviours in the UK: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 23, 1951. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16821-2) (PMID:37814236) (PMCID:PMC10561510)

Research Reports or Papers

Smith, M.J. , Vaczy, C., Kellerman, A., Tulloch, L. and Hilton, S. (2024) Young people’s perceptions of and exposure to unhealthy food advertising in Scotland. [Research Reports or Papers]

This list was generated on Sun Apr 20 06:16:13 2025 BST.

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