Ali Black is an internationally recognised narrative researcher and early childhood educator.
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Her arts-based research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities.​ Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for dismantling personal/professional binaries and representing lives. Her research and writing is concerned with the power and impact of collaborative and relational knowledge construction. 

Key areas of interest include: aesthetic inquiry; memoir; women's lived experiences; wellbeing and holistic education