I am Professor of Higher Education and Gender in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, and lead the Reimagining Education for Better Futures research group. 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 materialist theories and methodologies. I was co-editor of the journal Gender and Education for 7 years (2016-2023). I currently serve on the Editorial Boards of Teaching in Higher Education, Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning and Journal of Posthumanism. My latest books are J. B. Ulmer, C. Hughes, M. Salazar Pérez & C. A. Taylor (Eds.). (2024) The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis; 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; 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: 

• Posthumanist and feminist materialist theory, methodology and research praxis
• Space, place, objects, materialities and affect
• Feminism, gender, power and knowledge
• Walking as research praxis
• Post-qualitative research practices
• Student engagement practice and ethics
• Higher education transitions
• Creative, sensory, arts-informed research practices
• Innovative and collaborative academic writing