 Gini's research is characterised by its interdisciplinarity, its multi-disciplinarity. It brings together different researchers from across this university and other higher education institutions and beyond the university sector to look at these phenomena. So to look at the way we live our lives, make sense of our lives and understand our sense of self. Part of that, a crucial part of that is this idea of collaboration. We collaborate with each other as academic colleagues but we also collaborate with people outside the higher education establishments. It is inherently looking at the intersections of academics, activists, of policy makers, of practitioners and to see how those can be brought together to fruitfully add something to our research. To make our research meaningful to the people who we're looking at and researching and researching with, very much researching with, not perhaps in a participatory research way always, although sometimes that is the case, but more that we're doing research which is meaningful in the social world around us and has a real lived impact to the people who take part in their research. It's informed by but also trying to nudge forward the OU social mission which is about social justice. It's about trying to make a difference and to better understand and add more respect and appreciation of the lives of those we research. So by working with third sector organisations, NGOs, by working with policy makers and practitioners, our research aims explicitly and implicitly to engage with the very publics, the very people, the very topics that we're researching and that's crucial to Gina's research. There is definitely a theoretical underpinning to the work but it's not driven by pure theory, it's actually driven by a motivation to deliver the OU social mission about social justice.