Bev Hayward is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, within the Psychosocial Department. She teaches on the master’s programme in Education, Power and Social Change. Having a learning disability and working-class, she was often marginalised in the UK educational system; accordingly, by exposing her vulnerabilities she hopes to foster a transformative and democratic pedagogical student experience. During her PhD in Education, Transformation and Lifelong Learning, Dr Hayward presented her research at SCRUTREA and was awarded the Tilda Gaskell prize for the best student paper and prior to that she won the Laurel Brake award for her master’s dissertation. She is a poet, writer and embroider and is interested in the artist as educator. This position was drawn upon in the exhibition she curated, in 2022 entitled, Unruly Women, and presented in a piece created to celebrate the collaboration entitled Wandering Women: A Journey as Feminist Imaginaries, exhibited in 2023.