The May Group

The May Group consists of: Alyson Brody is an established gender and social inclusion researcher and consultant, with a background in social anthropology. She is the Former Head of BRIDGE, a gender and development research and policy programme at the Institute of Development Studies. Paul Cooke is Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds, UK. The films he has produced have been shown at over 100 film festivals and have won over 50 awards. Lou Harvey is Associate Professor in...See more

The May Group consists of: Alyson Brody is an established gender and social inclusion researcher and consultant, with a background in social anthropology. She is the Former Head of BRIDGE, a gender and development research and policy programme at the Institute of Development Studies. Paul Cooke is Centenary Professor of World Cinemas, University of Leeds, UK. The films he has produced have been shown at over 100 film festivals and have won over 50 awards. Lou Harvey is Associate Professor in Education at University of Leeds, UK. Their research has focused on various educational settings, including higher education, informal arts-based education, adult migrant language education and social circus. Katie Hodgkinson is a Lecturer in Education in Global Development at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research primarily examines youth engagement in formal and non-formal education for social justice and peacebuilding in conflict-affected contexts. Faith Mkwananzi is a research fellow at the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her work is interdisciplinary and located at the intersection of (higher) education and global development. In�s Soria-Donlan is Research Manager: Creativity, Partnerships & Impact at the Horizons Institute, an interdisciplinary research incubator to address complex challenges at the University of Leeds, UK. She has worked with participatory arts approaches across the cultural and research sectors since 2013. See less