How can we make loneliness measures useful for practitioners who are implementing interventions and are tackling loneliness on the front-line?  

This event offers both practitioners and academics with an interest in the study of loneliness an opportunity to hear from expert speakers and share learning from both our first Loneliness measurement session and elsewhere on how we can make loneliness measurement help and support practitioners more in their work.  

Our speakers                    

Professor Johanna Badcock is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Western Australia and a registered clinical psychologist. She is Vice Chairperson and Deputy Scientific Chair of Ending Loneliness Together (ELT) in Australia and is one of the co-founders of the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection. A key strand of ELT work has been to make loneliness measurement practical and useful for community organisations who are working to address loneliness. Jo will talk about lessons learned from this work: the barriers to and benefits of loneliness measurement.

          Professor Johanna Badcock    



Tim Anfilogoff is Head of Community Resilience at Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group and formerly NHS England’s Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator for the East of England. Over thirty years he has seen the loneliness of many family carers first-hand and has in-depth knowledge of the work of VCFSE (Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise) organisations. In the context of this work and wider experience, Tim will talk about local use of the Campaign to End Loneliness measurement tool by social prescribers and how this has helped them demonstrate their impact.

Tim Anfilogoff