This month, Professor Louise Younie from the Institute of Health Sciences Education at QMUL shares three ideas that have shaped her journey as an academic, a general practitioner, a person living through cancer diagnosis and treatment, and a creative teacher. Louise's work focuses on using creative enquiry to explore professional identity formation, human flourishing, and humanising medicine.

1) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire. Seabury Press, 1970 2) Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker. Oxford University Press, 2007 3) Flourishing Spaces website - https://www.creativeenquiry.co.uk/

In this episode, our guest is Jen Randall, Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. Jen believes in the transformative potential of teaching, and we hear stories of this through the episode. She shares three ideas which have changed her thinking and pedagogical approach:

1) Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer. University of California Press, 1999 2) High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart. HarperCollins, 2013 3) Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks. Routledge, 1994

In this episode, we welcome Iona Hindes from the Centre for Public Health and Policy at Queen Mary University of London. Iona is an anthropologist studying the unequal impacts of Covid-19 policies on maternity healthcare experiences. She introduces three ideas, how they have challenged her, and what they have allowed her to see differently:

1) Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered by Cynthia Enloe. University of California Press, 2013 2) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, by Kimberle Crenshaw. Stanford Law Review, 1991 3) The Health Disparities Research Industrial Complex by Jerel Ezell. Social Science and Medicine, 2024