Introducing Luara Karlson-Carp

Meet Luara Karlson-Carp, Research Assistant in Contemplative Practices and Change.

Luara has recently joined the Contemplative Studies Centre as Research Assistant for the Contemplative Practices and Change network. Her role involves designing and implementing the Centre’s research projects, specifically those related to social change.

Luara finds the Centre to be a dynamic workspace where she is constantly encountering new methods and different orientations to research. It’s also an incredibly friendly and welcoming group of people.

She is passionate about thinking deeply about difficult questions, and community spaces that value deep thinking as a practice. She's also really interested in the way that technologies and infrastructure can in and of themselves function as agents of exclusion and inequality.

When Luara isn't working at the Centre, she is busy with other ongoing projects. She is currently president of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy in a voluntary capacity, as well as completing the finishing touches on her master’s thesis on French philosophy and feminist theory, so there isn’t a lot of ‘not working’ at present! Luara has a background in music and her first degree was in jazz singing, so she looks forward to making more music when things settle down.