Mindy Ptolomey is an award-winning researcher and teacher. She is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, a resident of the Advanced Research Centre, and a member of the Glasgow Centre for Disability Research.

Mindy is an expert in researching and teaching with marginalised learners in formal and non-formal educational contexts through devising creative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approaches. Her work focuses on three intersecting areas:
– gender, disability, neurodivergence, and youth
– the experiences of marginalised learners in formal and non-formal educational contexts
– co-designing and facilitating creative arts-based and inclusive research practices and methods, research cultures, and knowledge exchange and impact activitiesMindy’s research focuses on personal, institutional and cultural transformation by facilitating the reimagining, remaking, and (re)theorising of experiences of educational exclusion.

Mindy holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow, and previously worked as a Lecturer in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prior to entering academia, Mindy worked as a community learning and development leader devising and leading non-formal educational projects to address social injustice in Scotland and internationally for over a decade.