Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Developing creative pedagogic practice

Speakers

• Aidan Ryan Deputy Head, The Elmgreen School
  

  Aidan Ryan

  Deputy Head, The Elmgreen School

  Aidan Ryan is presently Deputy Headteacher at The Elmgreen School in South London. With a rich and diverse background in comprehensive education spanning 18 years, Aidan has developed a keen understanding of the evolving secondary and post -16 educational landscape. In addition to teaching art and photography, Aidan’s expertise also extends to post-16 education and management, curriculum design, teaching and learning, staff professional development and careers education advice and guidance. Aidan remains actively engaged in professional research and is presently completing a National Professional Qualification in Headship.

• Catherine Smith Programme Director, Academic Practice, University of the Arts London (UAL)
  

  Catherine Smith

  Programme Director, Academic Practice, University of the Arts London (UAL)

  Catherine Smith is programme director for Academic Practice at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and volunteers as Treasurer and Committee Member of GLAD, the Group for Learning in Art and Design Higher Education. She also edits Spark: UAL’s Creative Teaching and Learning Journal and was a founder member of the Graphic Design Educators’ Network, the UK’s national subject association for graphic design. Catherine is currently undertaking a part-time professional doctorate at the University of Dundee: an ethnographic exploration of sociomaterial relations in art school workshop practice.

• Danielle Barrios-O’Neill Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art
  

  Danielle Barrios-O’Neill

  Head of Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art

  Danielle Barrios-O’Neill is the Head of Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. Her research and practice are driven by a conviction that art and education each have a fundamental role to play in investigating and influencing future societal shifts and how they are managed. Her pedagogical research is actively engaged with serious play and game-led experiences, active multiplatform interaction, and post-disciplinary study. She is especially interested in bold approaches to curriculum design that embrace complexity and uncertainty, and experimentation with unconventional formats. She has published on digital and post-digital pedagogy across the arts and humanities, with a special focus on socio-environmental influences and interactions. This explores arts pedagogy in relation to socio- environmental transitions including climate change, political conflict, emerging technologies and technological change. Danielle has managed projects with a number of public and private sector organisations with interest in games, play and future-oriented praxis, and has served as Principal Investigator on RKEI projects in immersive experience design, education and public engagement.

• James Ward Head of Cambridge School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University
  

  James Ward

  Head of Cambridge School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University

  James is Head of Cambridge School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Reporting directly to the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Faculty he has the responsibility for strategic and day-to-day planning and development of the School. The Creative Industries School covers four subject areas: Computer Games, Film & Media, Music & Music Technology and Writing & Performance.

  Externally, James is a member of GLAD and a Governor at Morley College London. Where in addition to his membership of the Board he is Vice Chair of the Standards & Quality Committee, member of the People Committee and Lead Governor for IAG.

  Prior to his Role at ARU, James worked at Ravensbourne University London where over his tenure he had several roles, the latter being Deputy Dean for Learning & Teaching and Head of The Screen School. The Screen School has three departments covering film & TV, computer games & animation, music, and broadcast engineering. Additionally, James led the development and validation of three Apprenticeship Degree courses. These led to the creation of bespoke products, tailored to the needs of both higher education quality enhancement and academic standards, together with the recognition of the requirements of industry employers and skill sector agencies.

• Jayne Hemmins Senior Lecturer, The Northern School of Art
  

  Jayne Hemmins

  Senior Lecturer, The Northern School of Art

  Jayne is Senior Lecturer for the BA (Hons) Textiles & Surface Design programme at The Northern School of Art. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of The Association of Fashion and Textiles Courses (FTC).

  Jayne’s initial career was design industry based, heading up a successful design studio selling surface designs to the fashion, interiors and gift markets internationally. This informs her approaches to developing curriculum with symbiosis between pedagogical approaches and industry requirements.

  Jayne’s current arts practice considers pedagogy, anthropology and personal authenticity. She aims to provoke thought and action as well as asking questions of the creative process and personal barriers and rituals around creative practice.

• Louise O'Boyle Chair of GLAD
  

  Louise O'Boyle

  Chair of GLAD