Zyra Evangelista is a Research Associate at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Zy’s primary research interest is in LGBT+ psychology. Their PhD research focused on improving LGBT+ inclusion in Higher Education. It was supported by a Newton Fund grant and involved a mixed-method, cross-country comparative assessment of the campus climate for LGBT+ university students in the UK and Philippines. For their work, Zy was awarded the Prize for Research Work on Gender Identity and Sexual orientation Issues to Combat Discrimination by Padova University CUG (May 2022), shortlisted for the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Impact Award (April 2022), a finalist at the University of Glasgow 3-minute thesis competition (March 2022) and was Highly Commended for the PsyPAG Rising Researcher Award (2020). They served as the PsyPAG representative for the British Psychological Society Psychology of Sexualities Section (2020-2022) and British Psychological Society Education and Training Board (2021-2022), and inaugural PsyPAG Workshops Subcommittee Chair (2021-2022), as well as the current Book Review Editor for the Psychology of Sexualities Review.