Dani Dilkes is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of feminist sociomaterialism, critical pedagogy, and knowledge and design justice. Her works draws on creative, critical, and collaborative methodologies to interrogate social practices and structures, with the hope of reshaping the future to be more equitable. She has just completed her doctoral research, which focuses on untangling the sociomaterial systems that lead to exclusion in higher education and on codesigning more inclusion futures for higher education. She has co-led multiple participatory design projects in health education, focused on centering the patient voice and highlighting diverse patient experiences and bodies in health education media. She is currently working as an Education Developer with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Western University (Ontario, Canada).

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