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Dr. Andrea Lambell is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University's Faculty of Social Sciences. She serves as Co-director of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and maintains affiliations with multiple research centers including the Centre for Death and Life Studies, Anthropology of Health, and Centre for Social Justice and Community Action.
Dr. Lambell's research focuses on critical issues in health and social care systems, with particular expertise in structural violence, epistemic injustice, and moral injury. Her work examines disaster recovery and emergency planning, governance in healthcare systems, complementary therapies, neurodegenerative conditions, and palliative care. She employs participatory action research methodologies to investigate how values around care and wellbeing are maintained and violated in contemporary society, with a specific focus on England's care infrastructure as revealed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory connecting healthcare systems analysis with social inequality research. The 2025 publication on student belonging at elite universities extends her analytical framework from healthcare settings to higher education contexts, revealing patterns of social, cultural and economic exclusion. Her earlier work on complementary therapies in cancer care established her focus on evidence-based practices and their implementation challenges in healthcare systems.
Dr. Lambell actively contributes to interdisciplinary research through her leadership roles at the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, where she coordinates work across multiple research centers focused on health, wellbeing, and social justice.
