Ali Black

We are delighted to welcome our first guest, Dr. Ali Black (@draliblack), to the @3Wedu: In Vino Fabulum [In Wine, Story] podcast! As our first audio-only visitor to the pod, we are excited to share more about Ali's stories, her work, and discuss being vulnerable in higher education. Ali describes this process of making sense of our lived experiences as a 'soulful' experience that has brought joy to her academic life. She highlights her values around the ethics of care, gentle writing, and the importance of deep, thoughtful writing work with The Women Who Write. These "wise women" felt empowered to do more, and can be found promoting how to savour slow scholarship, find support, become more self-aware, and stop living "thin lives" in academia with these key principles.

On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Ali Black, senior lecturer in the School of Education, USC. Dr. Black is a narrative researcher and early childhood educator. Her arts-based research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for dismantling personal/professional binaries and representing lives. Her research and writing is concerned with the power and impact of collaborative and relational knowledge construction.