Rewilding Futures: Shaping Tomorrow's Wild

About me: I am currently researching community-led interventions to maximise the health and well-being of climate change adaptations for extreme events project in the Department of Geography at Exeter University. I am a medical anthropologist with research interests in climate change adaptations, global mental health, green spaces and health, sickle cell disease and trait, infant health, energy poverty and thermoregulation. I also work as a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the SUCCEED Africa project which is a research consortium taking a bottom-up approach to investigate what works for people with psychosis in their communities in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. I also help support the Mental Health Innovation Network. Previously I have worked on research into improving health systems responsiveness for vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam using realist methodologies, medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa, nature and health, fuel poverty and sickle cell disease. Broad research specialisms: Methods: Anthropology, qualitative methods, evidence synthesis. Research experience in the following countries: UK, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam, Panama Interests: Climate adaptations, energy poverty, thermoregulation, mental health, nature and health, sickle cell, planetary health, public health, creative knowledge dissemination Methods: Anthropology, qualitative methods, evidence synthesis, participatory methods Qualifications: PhD Medical Anthropology (Durham) MSc Health Education and Health Promotion (Edinburgh) MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Edinburgh)