Carol Taylor

Carol Taylor is Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, where she leads the Reimagining Education for Better Futures research group. She maintains affiliations with both the Centre for Qualitative Research and the Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of her work.

Her research program critically examines the entangled relations of knowledge, power, gender, space and ethics in higher education through trans- and interdisciplinary posthumanist and feminist materialist frameworks. Taylor's methodological innovations particularly emphasize:

• Walking as embodied research praxis
• Creative, sensory, and arts-informed approaches
• Materialist and post-qualitative methodologies
• Collaborative academic writing practices
• Space, place, and object-oriented analyses

Professor Taylor's recent scholarly output reveals a strong trajectory toward experimental research formats that challenge conventional academic boundaries, with particular attention to climate change education, feminist materialism, and collaborative knowledge production. Her work demonstrates increasing engagement with arts-based methods and material dimensions of educational spaces.

She previously served as co-editor of Gender and Education for seven years (2016-2023) and currently contributes to the editorial boards of Teaching in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, and Journal of Posthumanism.

Her active research portfolio includes:

• WARP Collective - Walking as Research Praxis Game Changer (2024-)
• Dancing Otherwise Exploring Pluriversal Practices Educator Focus Group (2024-)
• The Get Up and Move! Collective: Walking and Co-creative Research (2020-)
• The CG Collective: Posthumanism, Feminist Materialist Research (2016-)
• WomenCAN: Building Success by Recognizing Women's Contributions (2024)

Taylor is currently accepting doctoral students and has supervised multiple research projects as indicated by her academic profile.