Our people
Professor Andrea Wigfield, Co-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.
Associate Professor Antonia Ypsilanti, Co-Director
Antonia is a behavioural scientist and leading researcher on loneliness and mental health outcomes.
She is particularly interested in how people with different loneliness experiences perceive, interpret, and interact with their social environment.
She is collaborating closely with community groups at-risk for socio-economic exclusion and with organisations interested in tackling loneliness, and promoting social welfare and mental health. Antonia has rich experience in leading or co-leading research grants funded by the European Commission, Age UK, and the Youth Endowment Fund.
She is also an active member in her community engaging in a lot of charitable and social welfare activities.
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:
