Andrew is a Research Associate at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) with diverse research interests in the policy challenges confronting places experiencing or emerging from disasters and conflict. He is currently working with the National Consortium for Societal Resilience (www.ambs.ac.uk/ncsr), which was established to enhance local resilience by sharing learning across resilience partnerships in the UK. At AMBS, Andrew previously worked as an RA on the ESRC-funded Recovery, Renewal, Resilience project, which supported local government across the world on their COVID-19 recovery planning.

Andrew has held postdoc positions at the University of Liverpool (2018 -2020), and at Maynooth University in Ireland (2016-2018), in the latter case leading on an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship.

Andrew obtained his PhD from Ulster University in 2014 where he investigated the destruction of the historic urban landscape of Belfast during the Northern Irish ‘Troubles'. He completed an MA in Town and Country Planning at the University of the West of England in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.