Comics-Based Research Traveling Exhibit by Education’s Sally Pirie on Display at University College Cork

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The arts- and comics-based research exhibit, “Fostering A Sense of Belonging For Higher Education Staff and Students With Caring Responsibilities: What Works,” from Sally Pirie, professor of education, and Marie-Pierre Moreau of Anglia Ruskin University, is currently being shown at University College Cork, Ireland. The work aims to raise awareness of those with caring responsibilities and the diversity and intersectionalities of their experiences, and to encourage the development of practices and policies which foster their sense of belonging.

The exhibition, funded by a grant from Advance HE (U.K.), was launched as part of the 2024 Athena Swan President’s Symposium, held Feb. 29, and will be on display until March 15. The collaborative work has previously been shown at Anglia Ruskin University and Middlesex University.

Pirie, an anthropologist of childhood and qualitative methodologist and coordinator of the Children, Families and Schools Program, offers The CBR Lab at UMass Amherst, which uses comics-based and other creative methodologies to solve problems, generate solutions, conduct innovative inquiry and imagine wider creative dissemination and research outputs in the humanities and social and natural sciences. 

Information about the CBR Lab can be found at https://sallypirie.com/cbr-lab/.