Zara Bain is an expert in social justice and social entrepreneur helping researchers, educators, and online businesses make knowledge--and knowledge-creation--more accessible.

Zara has a PhD in social & political philosophy and social epistemology from the University of Bristol, with particular emphasis on epistemologies of ignorance and epistemic oppression as features of socio-political systems like white supremacy and disability/ableism, as well as the work of late Jamaican-American political philosopher, Charles W. Mills (author of various books, most famously The Racial Contract).

Zara's work has been published in numerous prestigious international volumes, including the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, as well as featured in The Guardian, The Times Higher Educational Supplement and The Philosopher 1923. She is also co-author of the world's first truly intersectional general introduction to philosophy, Philosophy: A Crash Course.

As a disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent researcher, Zara founded research-specialist transcription and closed-captioning social enterprise, Academic Audio Transcription, in 2017, after realising that if she wanted flexible, fairly-paid remote work accessible from bed or while housebound during medical leave from her doctoral studies, she'd need to build it herself.

She lives in West London with her partner and two little boys, and in her spare time can be found walking in the woods, experimenting with new recipes, or volunteering at her local city farm.