Neil is a mixed method, interdisciplinary, social scientist working at the interface of public health, health economics and social policy. He works on two main areas of research. The first, conceptualising and evidencing the role of social finance – microcredit and impact bonds – on health. The second, eliciting public values in relation to resource allocation decisions to improve health and reduce health inequalities. He has experience and expertise using stated preference techniques (i.e. Contingent Valuation, Person Trade-Off), Q methodology, Q-based survey methods and qualitative methods.
His work has been funded by National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NIHR), the Wellcome Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Charity, among others. He currently leads a NIHR grant on ‘Public Values, Universal Basic Income and Health’.
His co-written book, Social Finance and Health, was published by Routledge in 2023. He has published in journals including, including Social Science and Medicine, Health Economics, International Journal of Equity in Health, Geoforum, Evidence and Policy, BMC Health Services Research, Evaluation, Stanford Social Innovation Review and BMC Medical Ethics.
He is the Social Finance module leader on the MSc Social Innovation and co-delivers the annual Q Methodology Workshop. He is an external associate member of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), University of Birmingham.
He is particularly interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: public preferences for ways to tackle health inequalities, the social determinants of health and income-based interventions, microfinance and Social Impact Bonds.