Dr Kay Inckle is located in the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin where she lectures in qualitative research methods and ethics and where she has also established a certificate course in understanding and responding to self-injury from a harm-reduction ethos. Her work with self-injury spans a range of experience including as a social care practitioner, as a PhD and post-doctoral researcher, as a trainer to service providers, as a lecturer, academic and activist. She has founded her own research and training company Kreative Interventions (www.kreativeinterventions.com) to further her work in this area.

Her other interests include: gender and sexuality; embodiment, body politics and practices; radical disability studies, and creative methodologies, and she has a number of publications in these areas including her book Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh (2007: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). All of Kay’s work is informed by her own life-journey and her pursuit of theory, research and practice which manifest alternative, non-exploitative ways of knowing and being. She is also a committed vegan and a practitioner of holistic and alternative approaches to health and well-being.