Dr Liz Gulliford is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. She has an interdisciplinary background with an MA in Theology (Trinity College Oxford), MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies (Queens' College, Cambridge), and a BPS-accredited BSc in Psychology from Anglia Ruskin University. Her PhD (Queens' College, Cambridge, 2011) established a firm, critical foundation for theoretical and practical work in positive psychology upon which she has progressively built an international reputation. She has carried out conceptual and empirical work on gratitude, forgiveness, hope, optimism, courage, compassion, positive psychology, virtue ethics, moral development, and exemplarism. She has published in a wide range of journals in psychology, education, and philosophy and has given numerous invited presentations internationally to both academic and lay audiences. During her tenure as an Associate Professor in Positive Psychology at the University of Northampton (2018 – 2023), Liz was Co-PI on a John Templeton Foundation funded research project on 'The role of exemplar narratives in cultivating character' (2019 – 2023), which was part of a larger network grant on moral exemplars. Liz works in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues in the School of Education at UoB and is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Character Project.