Dawn Mannay

Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University. Her research interests revolve around class, education, families, identity, and inequality. Dawn employs participatory and visual methods in her work with communities, and she has facilitated a number of international creative methods workshops. Dawn was the principal investigator on a study exploring the education of care-experienced children and young people, and she is currently involved in a project for the Welsh Government, facilitating the online community of practice—ExChange: Care and Education. Dawn edited a collection for the University Wales Press, Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (2016) and wrote the sole authored text for Routledge, Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (2016). Her most recent work, Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships, coedited with Dr. Tracey Loughran, was published by Emerald in 2018.