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Melissa Leach is a British social scientist. As of 2017 she is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the [University of Sussex, UK]. Leach founded and directed the interdisciplinary, internationally-collaborative ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre from 2006 – 2014. Her interdisciplinary, policy-engaged research in the field of environment, health and development is widely recognised, beyond West Africa, where much of her empirical research work is based.

Education
She earned her BA (Hons) Geography, University of Cambridge, UK; and her MPhil and PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Academic Interests
Leach's main academic interests are in linking the issues of health, environment, technology and gender with the politics of knowledge, power, science and policy processes.

Awards and Honours

 * 2016: ESRC Outstanding International Impact Award for Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP)
 * 2012: European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Ziman Prize for public engagement with science, for STEPS Centre ‘New Manifesto’ initiative.
 * 1998: Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute, for best book in African Anthropology, for ‘Misreading the African Landscape’

Membership/ Professional Activities

 * Vice-Chair of the Science Committee of Future Earth ( http://www.futureearth.org/ ), steering development of agenda around planetary futures, sustainability and post-2015 development.
 * Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) ( http://www.ipes-food.org/ ).
 * Lead author of the UN Women 2014 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development on gender equality and sustainable development.
 * Co-Leader, ISSC World Social Science Report 2016 on Inequalities and Social justice.
 * Trustee, Malaria Consortium
 * Advisory Board member, ESRC ‘Nexus Network: New connections in food, energy, water and the environment’.
 * UK Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) Ebola, 2014 – 15.

Selected Publications

 * Leach, M. and Scoones, I. eds., 2015. Carbon conflicts and forest landscapes in Africa. Routledge.
 * Leach, M., 2015. The Ebola Crisis and Post‐2015 Development. Journal of International Development, 27(6), pp.816-834.
 * Leach, M., Raworth, K. and Rockström, J., 2013. Between social and planetary boundaries: Navigating pathways in the safe and just space for humanity. World social science report, 2013, pp.84-89.
 * Fairhead, J., Leach, M. and Scoones, I., 2012. Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(2), pp.237-261.
 * Leach, M., Scoones, I. and Wynne, B., 2005. Science and citizens: globalization and the challenge of engagement (Vol. 2). Zed Books.
 * Fairhead, J. and M. Leach, 1996, Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-Savanna mosaic.  Cambridge and New York:  Cambridge University Press.
 * Leach, M., Mearns, R. and Scoones, I., 1999. Environmental entitlements: dynamics and institutions in community-based natural resource management. World development, 27(2), pp.225-247.
 * Leach, M. and Mearns, R., 1996. Environmental change and policy. The Lie of the Land: challenging received wisdom on the African environment. Oxford: James Currey, pp.1-33.
 * Leach, M. and R. Mearns, 1996, The Lie of the land: Challenging received wisdom on the African environment. Oxford:  James Currey Publishers Ltd. and New York: Heinemann
 * Leach, M., 1994, Rainforest relations: Gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone. Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press and Washington:  Smithsonian Institution

Melissa Leach also regularly writes newspaper columns, gives interviews, and public presentations.