Charlotte Haines Lyon York St John University, UK
Charlotte Haines Lyon is an Associate Professor in Education at York St John University, with a background in Youth and Community Work. Democracy runs through her research, with an emphasis on different voices impacting research, policy, and practice. Charlotte’s PhD explored democratic parent engagement in a primary school, and in recent years she has carried out various young people as researchers’ projects including Toilet Talk in which school pupils design and conduct research projects about their school toilets, which they use as a basis to negotiate improved policy and practice.