Katherine Wimpenny
Principal Investigator
Katherine Wimpenny, PhD, MA, DipCOT, CertEd, is a Professor of Research in Global Education at the Research Centre for Global Learning, Coventry University, UK. She is the Theme Lead for ‘Education without Boundaries’ and has 24+ years of experience in higher education research and practice. Katherine’s research with colleagues, locally and globally, is grounded in comprehensive internationalisation, emphasising inclusive pedagogies, interdisciplinarity, social justice, decolonisation, and the role of the ethically engaged university. Her research considers a diversity of learning spaces (digital, face-to-face, blended, formal, informal, and non-formal) that interweave to impact educational opportunities that can connect international learning communities and the university to its locale. She is experienced in a range of approaches to inquiry, including Qualitative Research Synthesis, Arts-Based Educational Research, Participatory and Action Research, Appreciative Inquiry, and Transdisciplinary Feminist Research, including Post Qualitative Inquiry.
Jaya Jacobo
Researcher
Jaya Jacobo is a transfeminine thinker and artist based at Coventry University where she currently does work on trans feminist pedagogies in literature, art and performance. She has worked alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, scholars and community workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as with trans, queer and nonbinary Filipina/x/o performers from the Philippines and Filipino diaspora abroad. Jacobo was a former Board Member of the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines (STRAP), a former President of the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle (YCC) of the Philippines, a Founding Co-Editor of Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art and Co-Editor of BKL: Bikol/Bakla, Anthology of Bikolnon Gay Trans Queer Writing. Jaya is the author of Arasahas, her debut volume of poetry in Filipino from Savage Mind Publishing House.
