Breneil Malcolm
PhD Candidate (ABD)

I pride myself in my interdisciplinarity as an academic and institutional higher education researcher for the past 10 years—I’m a multifaceted, critical intersectional learning scientist:

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• As an academic researcher, I study the social, cultural, and political aspects of embodied learning using intimate and reflexive methodologies to inform designing inclusive higher education policy.

 

• As a methodologist, I experiment with theory and method a lot—I’ve enjoyed playing with and applying portraiture and autotheory in innovative and provocative ways, as you’ll see in my publications.

 

• As an institutional researcher, I apply mixed-methods research designs to capture quantitative metrics through qualitative complexities to tell a complete story.

 

• As a facilitator of learning, I’ve taught widely across the social sciences, behavioral sciences, health sciences, and humanities.

 

• As a higher education leader, I’ve designed and managed complex learning, and professional communication and development initiatives to support strategic outcomes.​
   

I place my body, lived experiences, and humanity at the center of my practice. That’s how I stay attuned to my purpose and support others through a lens of empathy, care, intimacy, and love. I’m just trying to make the world a better place, one strategy, one goal, one metric, one story, one analysis, one presentation, one publication at a time.