Dr Alicia Renedo BSc MSc PhD

Research Fellow

  

I am a Research Fellow in Social Science, Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Department of Public Health & Policy). I studied a BSc in Psychology (Deusto University, Spain), before joining the Social Psychology Institute at the London School of Economics (UK), where I completed an MSc and PhD and became a research member of the ‘Health Community & Development Group’.

Affiliation

Teaching

I lead seminars on the Principles of Social Research compulsory module. I am a tutor in the MSc Public Health.

Research

I am a social and cultural psychologist with a particular interest in the community-level determinants of health, participatory approaches to health, social identity, expert knowledge and its relationship to people’s health. I have a longstanding research engagement in the area of homelessness and health in UK. In particular, my research explores how changes within the UK care system, such as an increase in partnership between the voluntary and statutory sectors shape expert-customer relationships, service users’ access to healthcare infrastructures and ultimately the health of homeless people.

I am currently working with Dr Cicely Marston in a four-year research project investigating the patient and public involvement activities of the newly established NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London (National Institute for Healthcare Research, Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care). A core part of my work within the CLAHRC is the critical appraisal of the concepts of involvement, empowerment and participation, with an emphasis on what 'involvement' means in practice.

Some of my papers are openly available here and here.

Research areas

  • Ethnography
  • Health inequalities
  • Health promotion
  • Health services research
  • Maternal health
  • Organisational research
  • Qualitative methods
  • Social and structural determinants of health

Disciplines

  • Psychology
  • Sociology

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Other interests

  • Citizenship
  • Community
  • Community Mobilisation
  • Constructivism
  • Contextual Factors
  • Ethnography Of Research
  • Health Volunteers
  • Homelessness
  • Knowledge Attitudes And Practices
  • Maternal And Child Health
  • Participation
  • Participatory Approaches To Health
  • Partnerships
  • Patient And Public Involvement
  • Patient Involvement
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