Journal of Women's Health Care
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Flora Cornish

Biography

 Flora Cornish is Associate Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology. She received her PhD in 2004 from the LSE’s Institute of Social Psychology, and is also a graduate of the Department of Methodology’s MSc in Social Research Methods. She joined LSE as a Lecturer in 2011, following positions at the University of Cambridge and Glasgow Caledonian University. She is an Assistant Editor of Social Science & Medicine and Advisory Editor of the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

Research Interest

 Flora Cornish’s research addresses the role of community mobilisation and partnerships in improving public health. She has a long-standing research engagement with HIV prevention projects led by sex workers in India. Her recent work has focused on the relations between local grassroots realities and globalising development policies and management practices, in the context of efforts to mobilise communities to tackle HIV/AIDS.

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