Amy McLennan

Dr Amy McLennan is a social researcher, education innovator and systems thinker who’s all about improving human wellbeing. Her undergraduate training was in the medical sciences and French, and she completed doctoral and postdoctoral training in medical anthropology at the University of Oxford, in the world’s leading anthropology department. Her work on topics including chronic disease, gender, food and technology has reached audiences via a wide range of academic journals, government policy, and the global media, including The Guardian, ABC and BBC radio. She’s an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Adelaide Medical School, a GSL Global Goals Hero, and a John Monash Scholar.

Amy is skilled at ethnographic research and synthesising diverse perspectives. She has experience delivering cross-agency policy reform and professional education programs in the Australian Government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and she has designed and facilitated high-profile cross-disciplinary workshops in Paris, Bremen, Canberra, Sydney, New York, London and Oxford.

Amy is an Associate Professor at the ANU School of Cybernetics, which focuses on navigating complex societal transformations. In this context, she is establishing a chronic health research cluster focused on forging new, cross-disciplinary futures for chronic illness and disease.