Dr Andrew Wallace BA MA PhD

Research Fellow

Specialising in the social, urban and health policy fields, I have particular interests in public services reform and frameworks of welfare governance, with particular interest in discourses and processes of:

- localism and sub-national governance

- community empowerment and civic participation

- decentralisation and the re-scaling of the state

- system change, commissioning and performance management

- marginalisation, inequality and urban citizenship

- neoliberalised cities and the reproduction of urban space

I gained my PhD from the University of Leeds in 2006. Since then I have published widely in the areas of community empowerment, NHS reform and urban governance. I joined LSHTM as a research fellow in 2008 to work on a range of studies examining the organisation and delivery of health services.

Affiliation

Teaching

Seminar leader on Principles of Social Research.

Personal tutor and MSc project supervisor.

Doctoral upgrade panel member.

Research

I am currently working on a study of clinical commissioning groups and the restructuring of primary care in England. This is through my attachment to the DH-funded Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (Prucomm.ac.uk). Beyond my research into current health reforms, I have ongoing research interests in community governance, experiences of poverty and disadvantage, urban sociology, and normative political theory, including market reforms of the welfare state and the intellectual development of the UK Labour Party.  

Research areas

  • Health inequalities
  • Health policy
  • Health services research
  • Public health
  • Research : policy relationship
  • Risk
  • Social and structural determinants of health

Disciplines

  • Policy analysis
  • Political science
  • Sociology

Other interests

  • Citizenship
  • Community
  • Governance
  • Health Policy Process
  • Patient And Public Involvement
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