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 lived experience of chronic disease.

Qualifications

  • PhD – Human Geography (University College London)
  • MSc – Modernity, Space and Place. (University College London)

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 Towe Hamlets with colleagues from the Institute of Connected Communities at UEL.

Andrew’s previous research includes the Transdisciplinary project ‘Tacking Upstream Unhealth 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. 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Barnfield, A. and Bates, G. Research in an interdisciplinary team across disciplines. Area Journal (special issue - Thinking with Method) in press (2024)
  • Ayres, S., Barnfield, A., Bates, G., Le Gouais, A., and Pearce, N. What needs to happen to ‘level up’ public health? Contemporary Social Science, 1-27 https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2232765 (2023)
  • Bates, G., Ayres, S., Barnfield, A., and Larkin, C. What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system? Policy & Politics, 1-27 https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321X16814103714008 (2023)
  • Barnfield, A. ‘How value is enacted by public actors within urban development funding and the implications for levelling up public health in England, Environment and Planning F, Special edition Geographies of Valuation, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825231155880  (2023)
  • Bates, G., Hasan, M.N., and Barnfield, A. Narratives of health and wellbeing in UK government housing and transport policy 2010-2020, Journal of Urban Affairs
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2023.2260029 (2023)
  • Bates, G., Barnfield, A., Larkin, C., and Ayres, S. How can health evidence be packaged to reach actors across a complex system to influence the development of healthy urban environments? Population Medicine, 5 (Supplement). https://doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165442 (2023)
  • Bates, G., Le Gouais, A., Barnfield, A., Montel, L., Peake-Jones, S., Bondy, K., Hasan, M.N., Koksal, C., and Ayres, S. Balancing autonomy and collaboration in large-scale diverse teams for successful qualitative interviewing. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, DOI:10.1177/16094069221144594 (2023)
  • Le Gouais, A., Bates, G., Callaway, R., Kwon, H.R., Montel, L., Peake-Jones, S., White, J., Hasan, M.N., Koksal, C., Barnfield, A., Bondy, K., and Ayres, S. Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making. Cities and Health https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103023 (2023)
  • Hasan, N.M., Le Gouais, A., Montel, L., Koksel, C., Bates, G., and Barnfield, A. Developing shared understanding through interdisciplinary collaboration: reflections from the TRUUD project. Futures Journal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103176 (2023)
  • Barnfield, A. ‘Flowing Current’, Cultural Geographies, Volume: 29, issue: 1, page(s): 151-156 https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740211029282 (2022)

TEACHING

Module Lead: 

  • HS5000 BSc Public Health Systems and Policy.
  • HS5120 Public Health Systems and Policy (Public Health Apprentices).
  • HS7008 MSc Public Health Research Methods
  • HS7009 MSc Public Health research project.

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