Sean is a Research Fellow in Health Economics working in the Health, Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE) research group in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research. 

His research interests include the economics of informal/unpaid caregiving, with a focus on (but not limited to):

• Carer identification
• Time measurement
• The consequences of caregiving (health and healthcare use, wellbeing, the labour market and time use)

Additional interests relate to:

• Unmet healthcare needs
• Health and care inequalities
• Primary care workforce
• Survey experiments.

He completed his Wellcome Trust funded PhD in 2022 in Health Economics titled ‘The identification, measurement and consequences of informal caregiving’ which was supervised by Professor Matt Sutton, Professor Gunn Grande and Dr Yiu-Shing Lau. Sean used a variety of data sources from household surveys, time diaries and a census-based cross-sectional survey and applied a range of applied micro-econometric techniques.

Sean has also been involved in a range of other projects. Examples include:

• The examination of the health and health care effects of Greater Manchester’s devolved health and social care budget using policy evaluation methods 
• The identification of sexual orientation health and health care inequalities
• The cost of treating venous leg ulcers in the community

PhD Health Economics (University of Manchester, 2022)

MSc Economics (Economics of Health) with Distinction (University of Manchester, 2017)

BEconSc(Hons) Economics (University of Manchester, 2014)