Patrycja Kupiec (PhD)
Works on systemic change in anti-poverty sector
Patrycja has built a multifaceted career across heritage, academic research, public engagement, and leadership in the third sector. Her work is rooted in a commitment to challenging inequalities and amplifying underrepresented voices, with a focus on integrating diverse perspectives into policy and systemic change. She specialises in co-creating strategies that bridge lived experience with research to shape impactful, sustainable solutions for communities.
Her research background includes investigating historical roles and identities, which she has presented and published internationally. Patrycja is passionate about advancing equitable practices, with a particular interest in wellbeing, community organising, and empowering marginalised groups to lead in decision-making spaces.
Gabrielle Blackbell (MSc)
Facilitates inclusive participatory spaces
for emergent strategies to form
A cognitive scientist by training, Gabrielle has worked in the equalities sector in Scotland since 2015, engaging in intersectional feminist, anti-racist decolonial work. Centring participatory practices, Gabrielle is a facilitator, community researcher and a storyteller.
Her work aims to create space for new ways of thinking
about governance and strategy to surface,
allowing for questions like "who gets to decide
about what we should be focusing our energies on?"
and "what is the problem represented to be "
to take center stage.