Andrew Barnfield

Dr Andrew Barnfield

Senior Lecturer In Public Health

Senior Lecturer

Health Inequalities, Evaluation, Policy, Physical Activity

Department of Allied and Public Health , School of Health Sport and Bioscience

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in public health. He is a transdisciplinary researcher who is interested in the ways cities and urban spaces impact health, non-health policy impacts on health and wellbeing, and research methodologies that capture the lived experience of chronic disease.

Qualifications

  • PhD – Human Geography (University College London)
  • MSc – Modernity, Space and Place. (University College London)
  • Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy/Advance HE

Areas Of Interest

  • Evidence in Complex Systems
  • Geographies of Health
  • Urban Policy
  • Non-representational Theory.
Andrew Barnfield

CURRENT RESEARCH

Andrew is currently working on two research projects: 

  1. Exploring everyday geographies of chronic disease. This involves looking at the skills and practices that are developed as part of living with a chronic disease.
  2. An evaluation of the Healthy Lives Service at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with colleagues from the Institute of Connected Communities at UEL.

Andrew’s previous research includes the Transdisciplinary project ‘Tacking Upstream Unhealthy Urban Development’ project. This work involved a systems perspective to explore how economic valuations of health can be used to incentivise and shape collective decision-making. 

The Chrodis Plus project.

This work involved identifying the key elements in the transfer and implementation of best practices for health promotion. 

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