Dr. Megan Welsh Carroll
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Professor
*MPA Nucleus Faculty Member
School of Public Affairs
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
SDSU
Primary Email: [email protected]
Building/Location
Adams Humanities - 4234
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego,
CA
92182-4560
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Bio
Megan Welsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on research methods and data analysis for social scientists, as well as special topics courses on homelessness and racial and gender (in)justice. Students in Dr. Welsh’s classes get the opportunity to engage in “real world” field research on pressing issues confronting our local communities, including homelessness, housing insecurity, public safety, and climate change.
The main goal of Dr. Welsh’s research is to inform community-based solutions to poverty and climate change that are rooted in people’s wisdom about the specific needs of their communities. Dr. Welsh especially enjoys partnering with social service organizations and advocates to conduct research to inform more just and equitable public policy.
Some of Dr. Welsh’s current projects include: a regional assessment of bathrooms and other basic health and sanitation resources in the San Diego region; an examination of the effects of unsheltered people’s encounters with police on health decision-making (funded by the University of California’s Office of the President); and the effects of climate change-related flooding on community residents’ participation in green infrastructure initiatives (funded by the National Science Foundation and in partnership with the City of Imperial Beach).
Dr. Welsh holds a doctorate in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center, and bachelor and master degrees in social work from UC Berkeley and Temple University, respectively.
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Publications
Welsh, M. & Felner, J. (2020, February 11). "Why cities must end their reliance on police to manage homelessness – and how they can do it." Scholars Strategy Network
Felner, J., Welsh, M., & Calzo, J. (2020, February 11). "Increasing access to public bathrooms is critical for San Diegans’ health" Scholars Strategy Network
Welsh, M. (2020). "Examining the Validity of Traffic Stop Data: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Police Officer Compliance." Police Quarterly.
Flanigan, S. & Welsh, M. (2020). "Unmet needs of individuals experiencing homelessness near San Diego waterways: The roles of displacement and overburdened service systems." Journal of Health and Human Services Administration.
Welsh, M., Chanin, J., & Henry, S. (2020). "Complex colorblindness in police processes and practices." Social Problems.
Welsh, Megan (2019). "Collisions of the personal and the public: How front-line welfare workers manage carceral citizens " Journal of Women and Social Work
Welsh, M. (2019). "How Formerly Incarcerated Women Confront the Limits of Caring and the Burdens of Control amid California’s Carceral Realignment." Feminist Criminology.
Welsh, M. (2018). "Conceptualizing the Personal Touch: Experiential Knowledge and Gendered Strategies in Community Supervision Work." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
Chanin, J., Welsh, M., Nurge, D., & Henry, S. (2016). "Traffic enforcement in San Diego: An analysis of SDPD vehicle stops in 2014 and 2015" Report presented to the San Diego City Council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods committee on October 26, 2016 and November 30, 2016, and presented to the full City Council on February 27, 2017.
Welsh, M. (2015). "Categories of Exclusion: The Transformation of Formerly-Incarcerated Women into 'Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents'." Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare.
Welsh, M. and Rajah, V. (2014). "Rendering Invisible Punishments Visible: Using Institutional Ethnography in Feminist Criminology." Feminist Criminology.