Lauren Sprackling

Lauren Sprackling is a British-Jamaican researcher, writer, holistic health practitioner, and community organiser based in Sheffield. Her MA in Social Research and PhD in Sociology at the University of Sheffield centre the lived and embodied experiences of Black women in gynaecological healthcare, exploring how racialisation and coloniality shape relationships to the body, health, and wellbeing. Using creative and participatory methods she supports alternative approaches to womb healing that engage the body as a site of knowledge and reclamation, honouring the long-standing power and agency of Black women.

She is particularly interested in visual storytelling as a way of foregrounding lived experience and affirming humanity, dignity, and relational ways of knowing. She is co-founder of Groundation UK, a community-rooted collective creating spaces for healing justice, cultural restoration and Black liberation. She is trained in Ayurveda through the Ayurveda Institute UK and in yoga with AyurYoga India. These practices shape her commitment to holistic, decolonial, and culturally-rooted approaches to research and accessible community healing.