Katherine Smith

Name: Dr Katherine Smith
Title: Reader, Director of the Global Public Health Unit and Co-Director of SKAPE (the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh)
Address: 2.27 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone: +44 (0)131 651 1323
Email: Katherine.Smith@ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Policy construction, Sociology of Knowledge, Knowledge transfer/exchange, Knowledge production, Health policy, Health politics, corporations and health, Public health, Evidence-based public health, Evidence & experts in policy, Social Inequality, Health inequalities, advocacy, knowledge exchange between research and policy, policy responses to health inequalities, theories of policy change, lobbying the EU
URL: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_policy/katherine_smith

Guidance and Feedback Hours

Mondays 15.45-17.15.

Topics interested in supervising

I am keen to supervise PhD applicants focusing on the following topics: theories of policy change, including explorations of the role ideas play in policy development; processes of knowledge transfer, particularly between research and policy; the relationship between research and advocacy (especially in public health); the influence of corporations on public health and broader policies affecting public health; policy responses to health inequalities (including comparative assessments); the policy influence of think tanks; impact assessment and/or risk assessment within policy processes.

If you are interested in being supervised by Katherine Smith, please see the links below for more information:

PhD in International Public Health Policy; PhD in Social Policy