- Affiliated Researcher, The Open University
Elizabeth Chappell was awarded her PhD titled Hibakusha Narratives in Context: A Dialogical Approach, in 2024: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4908-5604 She was interviewed by the BBC on 9th August 2025: https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/bbc-interview-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-nagasaki/ She is currently creating an archive of her research: https://ordo.open.ac.uk/conversations_with_hiroshima_survivors. In 2025 she received a fellowship at Hiroshima City University and spoke at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/web-essay-in-may2026-no1/ Her recent interview with Dr Masao Tomonaga M.D be found here: https://apjjf.org/2026/6/chappell?__cf_chl_f_tk=ryawto8xPFBZbPr7EI_hK6wKrzbzI4GAOePjJHol4yo-1783079404-1.0.1.1-5yPwdr2NTG.af8p_m8R.wncq_0esf2vm5vzEnkuc9DE She was guest speaker at The University of Westminster symposium: The Legacy of War and Pathways Towards Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvGH6lKrPmo&t=3s She was joint editor of Japan: Literatures of Remembering, a special issue of Wasafiri (Routledge) in 2020 https://www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasafiri-issue-102/ See also: https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/
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–presentPhD Candidate, The Open University
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