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Dita N Love (she/her) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, educator and creative writer exploring abolitionist, generational and healing justice approaches in youth education and university together with, by and for often marginalised, minoritised and migrant communities. As a Junior Research Fellow in Education at Homerton College, she is researching widening participation through anti-oppressive creative community-university partnerships rooted in contemporary arts practices from live to digital poetry, spoken word, Hip Hop and performance. Dita’s research is partly informed by her poetic practice and experience as ethnically Aromanian (i.e. Vlach) first-generation student and scholar. She has collaborated with Young Identity, Manchester-based arts charity, for her ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) working with young poets as leaders and space makers who challenge unsurvivable conditions for young people’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC) towards educational justice. Dita has also worked with undergraduate, foundation year and graduate students. Her doctorate in Education (University of Cambridge, Gates Cambridge Scholarship), co-created a spoken word and Hip Hop programme with young men in prison, teachers and artists in the Balkans. Lessons from her PhD were published in the book chapter “What's ‘Good’ about Artography from Prison? Poetic Lives as Peaceable Lives” and presented in a TEDx talk: Why Spoken Word Poetry is an Essential Research Method. The co-authored paper awarded the ��ɫ���� Conference 2025 – SIG Best Presentation' prize (SIG: Youth Studies an Informal Education) is forthcoming in the edited volume Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice (UCL Press).