Amy Kipp

I am a postdoctoral research fellow with the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, with a PhD in Social Practice and Transformational Change. Using community-engaged, creative, and feminist approaches, my research explores the social and spatial dimensions of care and wellbeing across different scales. This includes social infrastructures that shape how care is provided and accessed in communities, such as mutual aid organizing and collective artmaking; shifting discourses and understandings of care in ‘more than local’ practices, like ethical consumption and global volunteerism; and community wellbeing in the context of social change, such as demographic shifts and public health challenges. My research also critically engages with care as a methodological and pedagogical approach. Through collaborative auto-methods, I think with other scholars to theorize from our everyday experiences of research, teaching, and learning to collectively imagine and make change towards a more socially just university system.