Melissa Leach photograph

Melissa Leach

Use attributes for filter !
Gender Female
Parents Penelope Leach
Alma maters SOAS University of London
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Grandparents Nigel Balchin
Elizabeth Ayrton
Aunts Prudence Anne Balchin
Freja Balchin
Job Geographer
Education SOAS University of London
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID559890

Pathways to Sustainability: An Overview of the STEPS Centre Approach
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice
The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment
Rainforest relations
Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society
Science, Society and Power
Dealing with displacement
The Slow Race: Making Technology Work for the Poor
Science and Citizenship in a Global Context
Second Nature
Mobilising Citizens: Social Movements and the Politics of Knowledge
MMR Mobilisation: Citizens and Science in a British Vaccine Controversy
Gender Relations and Environmental Change
Childhood Vaccination and Society in the Gambia: Public Engagement with Science and Delivery
Whose Forest? Modern Conservation and Historical Land Use in Guinea's Ziama Reserve
Food Security and the Environment: Conflict Or Complementarity?
Gender and Environmental History: Moving Beyond the Narratives of the Past in Contemporary Women-environment Policy Debates
Integrating Gender Into Environmental Research and Policy
MMR choices in Brighton: Understanding Public Engagement with Vaccination Science and Delivery
Send edit request

Melissa Leach Life story


Melissa Leach, CBE, FBA is a British geographer and social anthropologist. She studies sustainability and development concerns in policy-making and has a focus on the politics of science and technology of Africa. As of 2017 she was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Related Persons

Next Profile ❯