Dr Lisa MoranDean, Technological University of the Shannon, IrelandEmail: martinamoran353@gmail.comProfileExpertiseProfileDr Lisa Moran is Dean of the Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland. Her principal research interests with regards to children and childhood are in the spheres of methodological innovation, biographic narrative research and storytelling, relationships between touch and silence, children in state care, post COVID-19 new social architectures and mothering. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). ResearchExpertiseBiographic, narrative research; children in care, touch and silence, sensory methodologies