Meet our Programme Directors: Global Health and Development MSc

Dr Rosamund Greiner

Dr Ros Greiner is a Lecturer in Global Health and the Co-Director of the Global Health and Development MSc. Ros is a feminist researcher, using qualitative, ethnographic methods to investigate health inequities with a special focus on gender and global health, reproductive justice and decolonising disability studies.

Ros completed both her MSc in Global Health and Development and her PhD at the Institute for Global Health, UCL.

Fun fact: Ros swims outdoors year-round, and my coldest ever swim was in 1°C water!

Recent publications:

• Gender, disability, and care: an ethnographic study of Congenital Zika Syndrome in Barranquilla, Colombia
• COVID-19: Online Not Distant—MSc Students’ Feedback on an Alternative Approach to Teaching ‘Research Methods and Introduction to Statistics’ at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
• Care as Resistance: Atypical Activist Parents in the Struggle for Disability Justice

Visit Dr Greiner's UCL Profiles page

Dr Hannah Cottrell

Dr Hannah Cottrell is a Lecturer and Co-Director on the Global Health and Development MSc. Hannah is an anthropologist specialising in education and health inequalities, working primarily with young people in educational settings. She is a qualitative researcher with extensive fieldwork experience and a particular interest in participatory methodologies.

Her research interests span schooling and youth, health and social inequalities, and interpersonal violence. More recently she has collaborated on projects exploring sexual violence support in the UK. Hannah's doctoral research at LSE explored the ways students imagined their future selves, examining how situated inequalities are reproduced and sustained through market driven education.

Hannah is also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at LSE.

Fun fact: Hannah was in a student band when she was at university.

Recent publications:

• The horizon’s limits: becoming the global middle class in two UK international schools

Visit Dr Cottrell's UCL Profiles page

Dr Stephen Roberts

Dr Stephen Roberts is a Lecturer in global health and Co-Director on the Global Health and Development MSc. Stephen’s research focuses on the datafication and digitisation of global health security practices (which includes new uses of Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and evolving data collection methods) during public health emergencies, and considers the impacts of these digital shifts across government, politics, society, law and ethics.

As an interdisciplinary global health scholar, Dr Roberts utilises a range of qualitative research methods (including interviews, case-study research, and policy and discourse analysis) to account for the unforeseen or unintended impacts on populations and societies which stem from the evolving datafication and digitisation of global health security practices in an age of 'Big Data'.

Recent publications:

• How has intersectionality been operationalised in health policy analysis? A scoping review protocol
• Reflections on 2024 Noto earthquake: do we need to pay more attention to the ‘human’ element of disaster?
• Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom

Visit Dr Roberts' UCL Profile page

Links

• Global Health and Development MSc prospectus page
• Study the Global Health and Development MSc - YouTube video