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Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Dr Megan Clinch, BA MA PhD

Reader in Anthropology of Public Health

Centre: Centre for Public Health & Policy

Email: m.clinch@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

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.

Research

Research 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

Publications

Please 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/s12916-015-0360-1

Supervision

Austin 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.

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