Pete Lampard
Research Fellow
Profile
Biography
Joining the Health Sciences at York in 2019, Pete is a social scientist with interests across various fields, including health and climate change communication. Before joining York as a Research Fellow, Pete taught sociology for seven years at St Mary’s University and the University of Manchester. He is interested in research methodology and the application of social and critical theory.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Sport Science - St Mary's University
- MSc Sociology of Sport - Loughborough University
- PhD Sociology - University of Manchester
Research
Overview
Pete’s research interests are broadly based on communication and change. That is, how wider social and material factors impact on processes of knowledge production, distribution, and consumption, and therefore the possibility of change, whether this is in health systems or in relation to an individual’s response to information about climate change or climate science.
Pete has worked on the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change since 2019, first as Research Fellow in the Public and Political Engagement working group, now as an author in that group, working on research indicators analysing media and political engagement. Pete has also worked on multiple projects funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), exploring public perceptions of climate change, public messaging around climate change, and local authority priorities for evidence around climate change.
Pete is part of MEASURE (Mixed Methods Evaluation of the high-volume low-complexity surgical hUb pRogrammE), working on the qualitative components of the study.
Pete has an interest in social theory – particularly critical theory, cultural theory, and historical materialism – and how this can be applied to contemporary societal issues.
Projects
- MEASURE
- Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
- Informing public health messaging on health and climate change
- Informing public health messaging on health and climate change (NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit)
Previous Projects
- Public perceptions of the health risks of climate change and priorities for action (NIHR Public Health Policy Research Unit)
- Local authority-level research priorities on climate change (NIHR Public Health Research Programme)
Research group(s)
External activities
Memberships
- Member of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
- Member of the Society for Social Medicine (SSM)
Invited talks and conferences
- ‘Raymond Williams and Social Movement’ - Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. Manchester. April 16th 2019.
- ‘Social Movement Practice: A Cultural Materialist Approach’ - Materialist Theories and Analyses of Contemporary Social Movements. University of Manchester. Global Political Economy Research Cluster. November 14th 2018.
- ‘Climate change and issue salience across a year of COVID-19 and national lockdowns: A UK analysis’ - Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST). February 16th 2023
