Anna Pilson a PhD student at Durham University School of Education. Her ESRC-funded project aims to create a collaborative autoethnographic project with young visually impaired people, who are positioned as knowledge producers. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, Anna worked in the UK and German education systems as a teacher, and since 2012 as a Qualified Teacher of Children and Young People with Vision Impairments (QTVI). In January 2022 she joined the Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs at the University of Birmingham School of Education as Lecturer in Vision Impairment Education and Course Leader for the postgraduate Mandatory Qualification for Teaching Children and Young People with Vision Impairments (MQVI). Anna's research interests include Participatory Action Research, Critical Disability Studies, vision impairment, autoethnography and practitioner-led and school-based research. She is an active member of BERA, BSA and UKPRN and an affiliate member of the iHuman research collective at the University of Sheffield. She tweets as @pilsonanna.