I am Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education at the University of Bath where I am Director of Research and lead the Learning, Pedagogy and Diversity Research cluster. My research focuses on the entangled relations of knowledge, power, gender, space and ethics in higher education and utilizes trans- and interdisciplinary posthumanist and feminist new materialist theories and methodologies. I am co-editor of the journal Gender and Education. I serve on the Editorial Boards of Qualitative Research, Teaching in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning and Journal of Posthumanism. My latest books are Fairchild, N., Taylor, C.A., Benozzo, A., Carey, N., Koro, M., & Elmenhorst, C. (2022). Knowledge Production in Material Spaces: Disturbing Conferences and Composing Events. London: Routledge; Taylor, C. A., Ulmer, J., and Hughes, C. (Eds.) (2020) Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice. London: Routledge; and Taylor, C. A. and Bayley, A. (Eds.) (2019) Posthumanism and Higher Education: Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

My research interests include: 

• Space, place, objects, materialities and affect
• Gender, power and knowledge
• Posthumanist and feminist materialist theory, methodology and research practices
• Post-qualitative research practices
• Feminist academic praxis
• Student engagement practice and ethics
• Higher education transitions
• Creative, sensory, and collaborative research practices
• Academic writing practices