Our people

     Professor Andrea Wigfield, Director

Andrea is a leading researcher on loneliness and social isolation, specialising in the wider health and social determinants and implications through research, programme evaluation, and evidence-based policy and practice.

She has managed around over 100 research projects, many co-produced with organisations and individuals.

She is committed to producing research which can translate into policy and practice change.

Advisory Group

The Advisory group comprises stakeholders from the public, private and voluntary sectors, individuals with lived experience of loneliness, as well as academics and researchers, who are working in the loneliness field, with the aim of supporting and steering the work of the Campaign to End Loneliness. Views of those with lived experience of loneliness will be fed into the Advisory Group. The group was established in October 2024.

The list of our current Advisory Group members can be found below: