Lauren Traczykowski is a senior lecturer in law (ethics) and lead for External Engagement for the Aston University Crisis Management Centre (Birmingham, UK). Her broad areas of research are disaster ethics and pedagogy, particularly playful learning. Her monograph "Ethics, Law & Natural Hazards: The Moral Imperative for International Intervention Post-Natural Hazard" argues that the international community has an ethical obligation to intervene when a state government is either unable or unwilling to assist its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard.
Traczykowski teaches global business ethics and ethics in a crisis. She is also a principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Externally, she is a board director of the Birmingham Food Council and Independent Ethics Board member for the Horizon Europe FutuResilience Project.