Biography

2025- Affiliate Researcher WELS

2024 PhD (Awarded by The OU) Literature Linguistics Psychology 

2020-2021 Tutor and Facilitator Professional Academic Communication in English FASS 

2012 Diploma in Japanese Part 1 SOAS University of London

2006 MA in Creative Writing University of East Anglia 

1994 MA in English Literature and Classics University of Cambridge

Peer Reviewed journals 

Forthcoming

Creative Interruptions: 'The Storytellers of Hiroshima - interrupting the norms in the praxes of storytelling in Hiroshima.'  Open Arc (OU)

Further publications and links:

A Nagasaki doctor's lifelong research on radiation exposure: An interview with Dr. Masao Tomonaga - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Elizabeth Chappell – The Conversation

Dr Elizabeth Chappell (@drelizabethchapp.bsky.social) — Bluesky

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/web-essay-in-may2026-no1/

Elizabeth Chappell (0009-0004-4908-5604) - ORCID

https://ordo.open.ac.uk/conversations_with_hiroshima_survivors

https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/bbc-interview-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-nagasaki/

https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/80th-anniversary-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-article-in-wired-magazine/

https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/the-irenaut-the-legacies-of-nuclear-war-research-and-creative-practice/

https://thelastsurvivorsofhiroshima.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/symposium-on-the-80-year-legacy-of-war-and-paths-to-peace-commemorating-vj-day/

 

 

Publications

Thesis

Hibakusha Narratives in Context: A Dialogical Approach

Chappell, E. (2024). Hibakusha Narratives in Context: A Dialogical Approach [phd thesis, The Open University (OU)].