Gavin Andrews
Professor, Health, Aging & Society

Gavin J Andrews PhD DSc is a Professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University in Canada, and a former chair of that unit. A geographer by training, his research explores a range of phenomena through their production in/of space including aging people and things, holistic medicine, health care work, conditions of the brain/mind, sports and fitness, health histories and popular music. As Principal Investigator he has gained funding for his work from a variety of sources including the UK NHS, The Nuffield Foundation and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. As of 2023 he had published 140 academic papers, 60 book chapters, 5 journal special issues and 14 books (most as lone or first author), including Place and Professional Practice (Springer, 2021), COVID-19 and Similar Futures (Springer, 2021), Non-Representational Theory and Health (Routledge, 2018), Geographical Gerontology (Routledge, 2018), Health Geographies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music (Routledge, 2014), Ageing and Place (Routledge, 2005). Much of his work is positional in that it considers the development, state-of-the-art and future of health and human geography. In particular he is interested in what non-representational and posthumanist theory can tell us about the emergence and immediacy of life, health and wellbeing (it published in Journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Health & Place, Geography Compass, and Progress in Human Geography). In 2021 he was awarded a Higher Doctorate (Doctor of Science) from the University of Nottingham (UK) for the contributions he has made to the advancement of health and human geography.