 So I brought the sketchbook because I think it really nicely illustrates the kind of interaction that happens around art. When adults and children work with paint and with colors and the way the body and the paint and the materials interact. In my research I try to understand processes of social inclusion and exclusion around art making in earlier settings that work with young children, mostly Roma in disadvantaged communities in the Czech Republic. So I am an ethnographer which means that I am really interested and curious about people and their culture and I use ethnographic methods to explore culture and people, which means that I make video recordings, I do kind of conversational interviews, I observe a lot in the field. The subject is important to me because I believe that only by understanding social inclusion, the processes of social inclusion and exclusion and really learning from them we can move towards more socially just, earlier education and really more democratic classrooms. I love working with children in the classrooms and what I am inspired by is the kind of how children relate and engage with new objects and materials. It is this very particular physical and intimate relationship when a child moves a blob of paint in front of them on a pallet. I love this page in particular because of the different textures, the different colors and the way the adult mark, the mark of the parent interacts with the mark of the child, as well as the kind of nature of the paint and the color and the markers and the pencils, so they all interact and make this really beautiful and rich tapestry. As a PhD student you come across this idea that PhD is a lonely journey and it is difficult, it is a lonely journey and I really think that it should not be and I really think that the university plays a really central role in that and to that end I have been very lucky because I have a strong team of supervisors, really caring and affectionate group of co-workers and also very supportive staff that aid me in my PhD journey and without whom I really believe it would be very difficult to finish if not impossible.