Senior Lecturer
- Email Address
- c.spoor@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Chris is a tutor on the HERU distance-learning programme in Health Economics. He graduated with a BSc in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and also holds a Diploma in Education from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Health Technology Assessment from the University of Sheffield. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has held full- or part-time roles at HERU since the 1980s, when he first taught on and managed the certificate course, and is currently part-time Senior Lecturer (Scholarship).
Chris has taught courses in economics or health economics at the universities of Maryland, Aberdeen, Dundee and Leeds, and was Principal Lecturer in Economics at Leeds Beckett University from 1997 - 2017. Interests include evaluation of complex interventions, health labour markets and the role of incentives in health professionals’ decision making.