Dr Philippa Mullins is a Research Associate at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research. Prior to this, she was Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice at the American University of Armenia. She has held visiting fellowships at LSE's International Inequalities Institute and the University at Buffalo's Center for Disability Studies, and been a recurrent visiting scholar teaching on the Erasmus Mundus Human Rights Policy and Practice (to date: 2023, 2024, 2025). She completed her PhD at LSE's Department of Social Policy with support from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council. Philippa's PhD research explored disability organising in Russia, looking particularly at notions of vulnerability and resistance. Her primary research interests include disability and civil society, as well as qualitative and participatory research methods. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. In 2026, she will take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to pursue research on disability and access to education in Armenia. Also supported by the Isaac Newton Trust, she will be based at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education.