Dr Andrew Burlinson joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Economics in 2023, and is a member of the Centre for Competition Policy (UEA). Dr Burlinson has researched issues related to consumer behaviour, technology adoption and inequality in energy markets and published in international peer-reviewed journals: Research Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and Energy Economics. Andrew’s research recently uncovered the causal and deleterious effects of fuel poverty on health, financial wellbeing, and healthy eating. Andrew has contributed to policy discussions and roundtables with leading experts and practitioners, including National Energy Action and the APPG on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency. He has worked on several projects with funding from Ofgem and EPSRC, and is currently exploring the distributional effects of the energy price crisis (funded by UKERC)