Ashley Lewis holds a Bachelor´s degree in Public Relations / Communications from the University of Texas, Austin and a Master´s degree in International Relations from the Centre for the Study of Democracy of the University of Westminster. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Nottingham and is an ethnographer of an interdisciplinary research project, "Sustaining Urban Habitats".  She studies interdisciplinary collaboration in practice and interrogates the different definitions, assumptions and promises surrounding interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences. 

Her current research interests include science and technology studies, critical discourse analysis, interdisciplinarity, scientific expertise and evidence, self-reflexivity, ethnography, sustainability science and Mode 2 knowledge.