Caring and Precarity: Parents, Carers and Early Career Research

Anna CohenMiller, PhD, is an internationally renowned qualitative social justice methodologist and award-winning educational leader who uses compassionate and transformational research/leadership to address issues of gender equity and inclusion in higher education in Kazakhstan and internationally. She is a founding faculty member at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education and specialises in arts-based research to facilitate/amplify the voice of marginalised communities. Recent research includes an innovative online photovoice study of motherscholars during the COVID-19 pandemic and a comparative international study through the British Academy to address the co-construction of gender-equitable futures in higher education in the UK, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Morocco and India. Dr. CohenMiller is Co-founding Director of The Consortium of Gender Scholars, Founder of The Motherscholar Project and Editor in Chief of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Her recent book (with N. Boivin), Questions in Qualitative Research in Multicultural Contexts is now available through Routledge and she is currently working on multiple other texts to guide and encourage researchers in socially, economically and ecologically just work.

Yelizaveta Kamilova is a Master of Library and Information Science and an Expert Manager at Nazarbayev University Library in Kazakhstan. Yelizaveta has more than a decade of experience in academic librarianship. Her research interests include academic librarianship, library virtual services and information literacy. She advocates for gender equality and follows the beliefs and principles of sustainable development goals (SDG). In particular, Yelizaveta co-organised and coordinates annual events for the Week of Women, Human Library and is also part of the organising committee of the annual International Nazarbayev University Library Conference; organising committee member of the Consortium of Gender Scholars (GenCon) including spearheading key aspects of the annual GenCon Gender Forum; and member of the The Motherscholars Project. She provides training and experience-sharing sessions to local librarians and is a working group member in developing information literacy modules to educate students in utilising information. Yelizaveta is a reference editor of the international journal Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy and a reviewer of the international journal, Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan.

Catherine Grant is a Senior Lecturer in the Art and Visual Cultures departments at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the co-editor of Fandom as Methodology (2019), Creative Writing and Art History (2012) and the questionnaire on “Decolonizing Art History”, Art History, 2020. She is a co-lead of two research networks: “Group Work: Feminism and Contemporary Art” and “Animating Archives”. Her book A Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art, will be published by Duke University Press in Autumn 2022.

Lizzy Harris is a co-chair of the Parents and Carers’ network at Tate and has helped to shape the network’s manifesto and to deliver a programme of events to highlight the challenges unpaid carers face balancing their work and caring responsibilities. She is a full-time carer to her mum who is paralysed from the chest down and uses a wheelchair.

She is the Coordinator for the British Art Network and is based at Tate Liverpool in National Partnerships Department and is responsible for the delivery of the British Art Network programme. Her previous role was Administration Manager at Tate Modern where she led a group of exhibition assistants in delivering projects across the Tate Modern programme as well as supporting the operational planning of the gallery. She has worked at Tate for seven years and has a wealth of experience in visitor experience, development, legal and finance and curatorial.

Pandora Syperek is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University London, and Visiting Fellow at the V&A Research Institute. Her research examines the intersections of science, gender and the nonhuman within modern and contemporary art and cultures of display. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles and is co-editor of Oceans (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, forthcoming 2023) and a special issue of the Journal of Curatorial Studies on “Curating the Sea” (2020), both with Sarah Wade. Pandora was postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 2016–2017, and she holds a PhD in the History of Art from University College London.