Lizzie Ward is a principal research fellow at the University of Brighton, UK. Lizzie is a qualitative researcher and her interests include age and ageing, care ethics, participatory research and experiential knowledge, gender and feminist methodologies. She works in the field of community participatory research and has a particular interest in co-production and working with older people as co-researchers. She has published in the areas of applying care ethics to research practice and social care practice with older people. She is co-editor with Petr Urban of the forthcoming collection 'Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State', published by Macmillan Palgrave (July 2020).