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Bethan Prosser strives to bring academic community-based practices together creatively to understand and tackle issues of social justice and place. As a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, she leads a community research strand within the FAIR project which focuses on food aid inequality and aims to improve the quality of food aid support. Her academic background includes a BSc in Philosophy and Politics from Bristol University, an MA in Migration Studies from Sussex University, an MSc in Social Research Methods from Southampton University, and a PhD in Social Policy from Brighton University. Her PhD investigated listening and sound-based methods to understand residents’ experiences of seaside gentrification along the Sussex coast. Bethan has extensive experience in community-university partnerships and has collaborated with community music organizations to co-design participatory soundwalks that engage residents, community groups, and local policymakers. Her work is informed by her background in the community voluntary sector, where she has held various frontline management roles supporting young people, families, older people, refugees, asylum seekers, and marginalized racialized minorities.