Dr Megan Clinch, BA MA PhDReader in Anthropology of Public HealthCentre: Centre for Public Health & PolicyEmail: m.clinch@qmul.ac.ukProfileResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileI am a Social Anthropologist, and undertook my doctoral research at the BIOS Centre, London School of Economics. I have conducted research at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Social Science at the Open University, and undertaken a visiting postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. I am currently the lead of the Global Public Health and Policy Unit. I am also the Public Advisory Panel lead, a theme that crosscuts all Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) activity. In this role I am working with colleagues from across the WIPH, QMUL and local stakeholders to co-design a strategy for socially engaged research and teaching that aims to tackle health inequalities across East London.ResearchResearch Interests:My research focuses on developing methodologies for the collective and equitable production of public and planetary health knowledge. This entails critical engagement with practices of co-production and public involvement in research, including the development of community-based blue and green infrastructure for climate and flood adaptation. Through this interest I have developed several projects in which I collaborate with socially engaged arts practitioners and members of the public to co-produce knowledge that seeks to act on complex public health challenges. Together these activities provide a way for me to explore how different forms of investigation, evidence, and evaluation are negotiated and contested in the development of complex multi-stakeholder public health interventions. I also work with local community organisations across east London to build their research and evaluation capacity. Current Projects Mapping Practices of Participation AI Multiply The Partnership for Black Peoples Health PublicationsPlease click through to see a complete list of Megan's publications. Featured publications Clinch, M., 2021. Environmental stewardship in austere times: nurturing sustainable socio-ecological relations. Critical Public Health 31, 245–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1853057 Levene, R., Clinch, M., 2021, Towards a Common Waters Policy (artwork and book). Clinch, M., Shaw, S., Ashcroft, R., Swinglehurst, D., 2019. Liminality in practice: A case study in life sciences research. BioSocieties 14, 251–273. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-018-0128-x Motzkau, J.F., Clinch, M., 2017. Managing suspended transition in medicine and law: Liminal hotspots as resources for change. Theory & Psychology 27, 270–289. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317700517 Greenhalgh, T., Clinch, M., Afsar, N., Choudhury, Y., Sudra, R., Campbell-Richards, D., Claydon, A., Hitman, G.A., Hanson, P., Finer, S., 2015. Socio-cultural influences on the behaviour of South Asian women with diabetes in pregnancy: qualitative study using a multi-level theoretical approach. BMC Medicine 13, 120. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0360-1SupervisionAustin Plunkett : Quality Improvement by Dissemination of Computer-Assisted Evidence Summaries, start date 2019. Sara Calderón: Could social prescribing contribute to type 2 diabetes prevention in populations at high risk?, completed 2023. I accept PhD projects in the following areas: Anthropology of Public Health, Creative Research Methods, Participatory Reseach, Planetary Health, Community Based Climate/Flood Adaptation.