ABOUT THE RESEARCH CENTRE
Michelle is based in the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies. A Flagship Centre of the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Centre draws together leading experts from around the world and across disciplines to address some of our most pressing social problems.
The aim of the Centre is to transforming how we think about, engage with, and foster health. And to harness social science and humanities expertise in the pursuit of healthier and more equitable societies.
While often seen as a characteristic of individuals and their bodies, health is also collectively produced through social practices and economic and political systems. How we ‘treat’ health, then, must move beyond focusing on individuals to instead encompass a more multidimensional approach. Our work at the Centre highlights how historical context, political arrangements, economic structures, enduring inequalities, and interspecies and environmental relations both produce health problems and might map paths to new solutions.
Emphasising complexity and connectedness, we provide a platform for radically reimagining what health is and how it might be better provided for—for humans, other species, our environment and the planet.
You can read more about the Centre and our work here.
