Dr Bryony Vince-Myers (she/her)
BA, MA, MA, PhD
School of Education
Research Associate, Participatory Research Network
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Co-Production Futures Inquiry, Universities of Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester
Full contact details
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Bryony is a Research Associate in the Participatory Research Network, where she leads on key initiatives to strengthen the research quality, visibility and impact of the network, including training and mentoring schemes, funding development, impact reporting, and the network’s online presence.
Bryony is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Co-Production Futures Inquiry – a two-year Research England-funded national inquiry between the Universities of Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool, which aims to propose measures to address the barriers to participatory and co-produced research within UK higher education.
- Qualifications
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BA International Relations
MA International Politics
MA Social Research Methods
PhD International Relations
- Research interests
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Bryony's research focuses on local, community-based approaches to peacebuilding. It is deeply rooted in community-driven, decolonial and participatory research, focusing on local agency and the everyday as a site for social change.
To date, her work has focused on challenging top-down understandings of peace and conflict by exploring how peace is understood and built by individuals and community-based actors in ways that are contextually specific.Bryony's ESRC-funded doctoral research explored how the national government, community-based actors, and individuals use Indigenous knowledge to build peace in South Africa.
Alongside this, Bryony also leads projects and initiatives to improve the conditions for doing participatory and co-produced research in the university and higher education sector.
- Publications
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- Grants
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University of Sheffield Publication Scholarship (Sept 2024)
Overseas Fieldwork Grant, ESRC White Rose DTP (June 2022)
Overseas Institutional Visit Grant, ESRC White Rose DTP (March 2022)
1+3 PhD Studentship, ESRC White Rose DTP (October 2019)
- Teaching interests
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- Peace and conflict / local peacebuilding
- Critical International Relations
- Qualitative, decolonial and participatory research methods
Bryony was previously Associate Lecturer (Module Leader) at Sheffield Hallam University, on the MA module 'Decolonising and Decentering International Relations' part of the International Relations and Global Crises MA courseCURRENT
Editor at Large - E-International Relations
Member of the British International Studies Association (BISA)
PREVIOUS
Book series co-editor (2020-2025)
Global Dialogues: Non-Eurocentric Visions of the Global, Bloomsbury
- Professional activities and memberships
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Fellow (2021-2023)
Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, University of York
EDI Committee Member (2021-2023)
Department of Politics and International Relations, The University of Sheffield
Co-convenor (2022-2023)
International Relations Research Group, The University of Sheffield
Affiliate Researcher (2022)
Stellenbosch University, South Africa