Dr Richard Lee

Assistant Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Richard is a social scientist who has undertaken work on a variety of public health issues. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and a UCU rep for SWECW and Health & Safety.

He was previously a Senior Research Associate in the Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University (2011-2018) and a Research Associate in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (2010-2011). He was awarded his PhD in 2010 from Newcastle University with the thesis ‘Setting Science-Based International Food Standards: Defining Dietary Fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission’.

His research and teaching specialist areas are: Public Health; Social Science; Qualitative Methods and Synthesis; Food, Inequalities and Inequities; Sport and Wellbeing; Ageing and Frailty; End of Life Care; Social Practice Theory; Socio-Material Infrastructures; Politics of Regulation and Knowledge Claims; Science & Technology Studies.

He was lead investigator for the British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant Project: 'Between transition and crisis: food assistance organisations in Northumberland and the implications for social infrastructure' SRG20\200138 Oct 2020 - Sep 2022.

Richard is an Editorial Board Member for BMC Geriatrics.

His email address is: richard.p.lee@northumbria.ac.uk

Campus Address

Campus West
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7XA

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
A cross-cultural investigation of the conceptualisation of frailty in northern Tanzania, Lewis, E., Rogathi, J., Kissima, J., Breckons, M., Lee, R., Urasa, S. 1 Jan 2023, In: Ageing and Society
Food bank practices, local development and the potential of community wealth building and universal basic services in the UK, Lee, R., Graham, P., Croft, E., Hackett, K. 30 May 2023, In: Local Economy
Identifying the Exclusions Within Academic Literature Regarding Free School Meal Practices and Policies: A Scoping Review, Dalton, C., Graham, P., Lee, R., Stack, S., Elliott, S. 29 Mar 2023, Open Research and Reproducibility Conference 2023
Exploring potential for occupational therapy practice models within areas of social deprivation: a qualitative inquiry within a community-centred food cooperative, Adams, R., Atkin, H., Lee, R., Hackett, S., Hackett, K. 1 Oct 2022, In: British Journal of Occupational Therapy
Rationing care by frailty during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lewis, E., Breckons, M., Lee, R., Dotchin, C., Walker, R. 8 Jan 2021, In: Age and Ageing
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work, Lee, R., Coulson, C., Hackett, K. 18 Nov 2021, In: Social Policy and Society
Understanding (disrupted) participation in community sports clubs: Situated wellbeing, social practices and affinities and atmospheres, Lee, R., Potrac, P. 1 Jan 2021, In: Wellbeing, Space and Society
Supporting good quality, community-based end-of-life care for people living with dementia: the SEED research programme including feasibility RCT, Robinson, L., Poole, M., McLellan, E., Lee, R., Amador, S., Bhattarai, N., Bryant, A., Coe, D., Corbett, A., Exley, C., Goodman, C., Gotts, Z., Harrison-Dening, K., Hill, S., Howel, D., Hrisos, S., Hughes, J., Kernohan, A., MacDonald, A., Mason, H., Massey, C., Neves, S., Paes, P., Rennie, K., Rice, S., Robinson, T., Sampson, E., Tucker, S., Tzelis, D., Vale, L., Bamford, C. 1 Oct 2020, In: Programme Grants for Applied Research Volume
End-of-life care: A qualitative study comparing the views of people with dementia and family carers, Poole, M., Bamford, C., Mclellan, E., Lee, R., Exley, C., Hughes, J., Harrison-Dening, K., Robinson, L. 1 Mar 2018, In: Palliative Medicine
Medical students’ views about person-centred communication in dementia care, Tullo, E., Young, T., Lee, R. 1 Jul 2018, In: Dementia

PGR Supervision

Tom Nicholson “It’s Not Just A Thing, It’s Everything.” A Longitudinal Narrative Study on The Parental Experience of The ADHD Diagnostic Journey Start Date: 02/03/2018 End Date: 29/03/2023
Soheila Ghasri People, place and well-being: Affinities, allegiances and inter-generational dialogue in community cricket clubs Start Date: 01/10/2019

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