Associate Professor in Education, University of Bristol Dr Lucy Kelly is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Bristol, primarily working with PGCE English trainee teachers. She advocates that trainee teachers see themselves as their own biggest resource in the classroom, and that they prioritise their wellbeing from the outset. Her main research interest is reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing, and she is Principal Investigator for the 'Reimagining the Diary' project, which uses a multimodal Diary Toolkit and ongoing wellbeing CPD to support educators across the country. The team have now launched a student Diary Toolkit, which is currently being tested by 250 Year 12 pupils. Lucy has written numerous articles on educator wellbeing and reflective practice, and presented her work on podcasts, at conferences and on the radio. 'Reimagining the Diary: reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing' is Lucy's first book.
Lecturer in Japanese, University of New England Laura Emily Clark is a Lecturer in Japanese at the University of New England. Her research explores contemporary Japanese literature, gender, and Japanese authors in the transnational literary sphere. Her co-authored paper with Kenko Kawasaki has been published in Japanese Studies (2022) and her work on Covid-19 short fiction was published in Gender, Place and Culture (2022). She received her PhD from the University of Queensland on Japanese gender ideals in Haruki Murakami's fiction. She received the Mariko Bando Fellowship from Showa Women’s University in 2020.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University Dr Pin's research examines public policy, participatory democracy and housing. She uses community-engaged research to understand the lived experiences of policy decisions, especially those often excluded from decision-making processes. Dr. Pin grew up in Hamilton, ON., and obtained her PhD from York University in political science. Prior to her position at Wilfrid Laurier University, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. She has worked as a policy consultant with municipal and federal levels of government, and many community partners. Dr. Pin is currently involved in three SSHRC funded research projects concerning housing policy, civic engagement and municipal politics.
PhD Candidate, Political Science and International Relations, Curtin University Leena is a PhD candidate and academic at Curtin University. Her current research focuses on the Middle East and North Africa region, specifically women's political participation during regime transitions.
Senior Researcher, University of Freiburg Laura Lambert, Dr. des. phil., is interim head of the research cluster “Patterns of (Forced) Migration” at Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg, Germany. Her prior PhD research “everyday externalization” (funded by the Max Planck Society) is an ethnographic exploration of the EU externalization of refugee protection to Niger and its unintended consequences in the everyday life of the cooperating third state. Her wider research interests include refugee recognition and protection, bureaucracies, migration regimes and migrant struggles, future-making and infrastructures. She is the co-founder of the West Africa working group at migration-control.info.
PhD Researcher, University of Amsterdam Lucy Wanjiku Mung’ala is a queer feminist with over 20 years of work experience combining programme design, research and management in international development. Her work focuses on community organising around gender justice, sexual and reproductive rights, and LGBTIQ+ activism. As of 2023, she is in the final year of her PhD in medical anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral thesis explores the political and practical configurations of sexual and gender minorities through their everyday encounters with the global development apparatus in 21st-century Kenya. A summary of her research project can be accessed here: https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/ASC-community/members/lucy-wanjiku-mungala Lucy also works for Hivos as the Strategy and Impact Lead for Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She holds graduate degrees in Gender and Development Studies from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Master of Public Health in International Health Development from the Royal Tropical Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
