CO-HOST Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/Burnard/) where she Chairs the Arts and Creativities Research Group (https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/groups/artsandcreativities/). Recent and furthercoming books include ‘Why Science and Arts Creativities Matter for Future-making Education’ (Brill-I-Sense) ’Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education’ (Routledge), Posthumannising Multiple Creativities in Music’.
CO-HOST/PROVOCATEUR Dr Caroline Lanskey is Lecturer Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the Institute’s research Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice. Dr Lanskey's research interests stem from her cross-disciplinary experience of education and criminology and include youth justice, education and the arts in criminal justice, citizenship and migration, youth voice and participation, the experiences of prisoners' families and research methodologies. Recent research includes a study of the education pathways of young people in the youth justice system funded by the Society for Educational Studies - Principle Investigator (PI); a European evaluation of restorative prison and probation programmes in Hungary, Germany, Latvia and Bulgaria (co-PI), an evaluation of the Ormiston Families 'Breaking Barriers' programme (PI) and a historical review of safeguarding children in the secure estate (PI). She is currently PI on the Families and Imprisonment Research (FAIR) Study (www.fair.crim.cam.ac.uk) and co-PI on a research study of youth justice and rurality. Dr Lanskey teaches and supervises students at undergraduate, masters and PhD levels.
https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-caroline-lanskey
BREIS (pronounced breeze) is a Nigerian Hip Hop rap artist. His name stands for Brother Reaching Each Inner Soul.He is the author of an interactive rap book 'Brilliant Rappers Educate Intelligent Students' and the founder of Student of Life, a Hip Hop inspired arts organisation working with young people. He is a remarkable live performer who has performed worldwide with his fusion of Hip Hop, Jazz and African rhythms. He is passionate about the education and wellbeing of young people. He has been working within education since 2001 and has taken his Student of Life Hip Hop Literacy projects across the UK, to Washington DC, Malaysia, Southern Africa and Vienna to name a few places.
He has toured internationally and shared the stage with world class artists such as Afro beat musician, Tony Allen, Dele Sosimi, Dead Prez, Big Daddy Kane, Black Thought (The Roots), Angie Stone, Les Nubians, Omar Sosa, The Horndogz and Kim Burrell. He is also the author of Brilliant Rappers Educate Intelligent Students – the UK’s premiere interactive rap book. BREIS is the CEO of Student of Life Ltd, a Hip Hop Education company/Record label and does a vast amount of work in schools across the UK, Europe, Washington DC, New York, Mauritius and Mozambique.
Http://breismusic.Wordpress.com
TATIANI CHEMI, PhD is Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Learning in Denmark. She is Chair of Educational Innovation. Her major interest is artistic creativity, artistic learning, arts-integration designs in schools, learning in theatre laboratory and the role of emotions in learning. Tatiani has published many books on the matter by collaborating with many international artists. Some of her recent publications include ‘The Golden Path Towards the Arts In/With Business’, ‘Arts-based methods in education around the world’, ‘Behind the scenes of artistic creativity; processes of learning, creating and organisation. Despite her Italian origin, she defines herself as 52% Greek, 8% North African, 7% Spanish and 7% Turkish.
http://personprofil.aau.dk/124693
SHELLEY A. BRUCE uses artistic expression as a means of sparking significant world change. Currently Shelley is pursuing her creative career with a focus on conceptual visual art, spoken word poetry, spirituality and activism. Her first publication of poetry, On Blooming, was published in fall 2018, and painting series Heaven Here released in fall 2019. Shelley also is the founder of the event series HEALING, that produces protests based in wellness to powerfully rejuvenate and inspire communities in response to the #BlackLivesMatter protests that erupted across the US. In 2020 Shelley was featured on HBO’s series “Insecure”, in the LA Times for her community organizing efforts, and has over the years shared her painting internationally in Washington DC, San Diego, New York, Ghana, the UK, Bermuda and more. https://www.jumakae.com/shelleybruce
HILARY CREMIN is a Reader in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Hilary uses her own poems in her research and teaching on peace education and conflict transformation in schools and communities. Her most recent work seeks to deepen understanding of restorative interventions in schools through the coding and analysis of teacher-mediated dialogue following peer conflict.
Hilary Cremin : Faculty of Education
KEI MILLER is a Jamaican poet and novelist. His fourth collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet), won the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.In 2014, Kei was also named as one of the 20 ‘Next Generation Poets’, a list compiled every ten years by the Poetry Book Society.
His third novel, Augustown, published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 2016 won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and is shortlisted for the 2017 RSL Ondaatje Prize.
He was Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter and is soon taking up a new position at the University of Miami. His most recent poetry collection, In Nearby Bushes, was published by Carcanet in 2019, and a collection of essays Things I Have Withheld is forthcoming from Canongate and Grove in 2021. Other titles include:
The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion
Website: underthesaltireflag.com
HELEN JOHNSON is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology specialising in arts-based research methods, creativity, and critical community psychology. Helen is both a social scientist and a spoken word poet, and combines these interests under the auspices of arts-based research. She is the founder of the collaborative poetics method and network, which use participatory, arts-based research to explore/communicate the lived experiences of communities and individuals, with a view to supporting their critical resilience. Helen heads the Creative Methodologies strand in the Centre of Arts and Well Being.