Introducing the CAL / CMUK Research Team
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Miranda Matthews (SFHEA) is an artist educator and researcher. Miranda is Head of the Centre for Arts and Learning (CAL) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Miranda taught in community arts, then in schools and post-compulsory education for ten years (2004-14). She began teaching in Higher Education in 2011, and became full time faculty at Goldsmiths in 2016. Miranda became Associate Head of School for Student Experience in Professional Studies, Science and Technology (PSST) in 2023. Miranda has published many articles and a recent book Arts Methods for the Self-Representation of Undergraduate Students: Sensory Transitions into University Cultures (2023).
As Head of CAL, Miranda initiated a programme of research on Ecologies in Practice that started in 2021. Developing from the Ecologies in Practice research programme, Miranda became Principal Investigator for Ecologies in Practice: Participatory Arts Methods for Engaging Young People in Climate Research. This project was funded by the AHRC and Goldsmiths (2022-2023).
Twitter @randamaths
Instagram @mirandamatthews
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Francis Gilbert was a teacher for twenty-five years in various UK state schools. He is the author of many books, including I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Analysis and Study Guide: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2015), The Mindful English Teacher (2018) and Snow on the Danube (2019).
He is now a senior lecturer in education at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is the Academic Director of the Connected Curriculum, and the head of the MA in Creative Writing and Education. He is a member of the Higher Education Committee of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Twitter @wonderfrancis
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Bridget McKenzie is an ‘imagination activist' and researcher in culture, learning and environment.
After 14 years in roles such as Education Officer for Tate and Head of Learning at the British Library, she founded Flow Associates in 2006. In 2019, Bridget founded Climate Museum UK, an experimental museum which supports and curates responses to the Earth crisis. Back in her native city of Norwich, she has begun a programme called Possitopia Norwich. She is an advisor for Culture Unstained and co-founder of Culture Declares Emergency, and she presents and publishes internationally on possibilities of Regenerative Culture.
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Kimberley Foster is an artist and lecturer has taught worked within in art practice for over 20 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is currently a lecturer in Arts, Education and Learning at Goldsmiths and completing her PhD practice research; (Material Acts of Thinking and Learning in the Art Museum. Embodied Encounters and the Pedagogical Art Object.) with the research taking place at Tate Modern and Sainsburys Centre UEA.
She has a collaborative practice as sorhed: www.sorhed.com and works extensively with exhibitions and collections. This sculptural-object-based-practice focusses on the development and enactment of pedagogical art objects questioning interpretation, touch, and encounter. The objects are created to move away from traditional approaches to learning by embedding artworks, that can be touched and handled at the centre of less-structured, dialogic, and participatory enquiry. Kimberley has presented widely and co-authored journal papers/book chapters on, object dialogues, drawing and writing in creative practice.
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Kevin Davidson is a creative practitioner and researcher into embodied and play-based approaches to learning and development. Since 2008 Kevin has delivered award-winning socially-engaged participatory arts projects for national charities such as Save the Children and Music in Detention. He works with marginalised groups such as refugee and migrant communities and people with mental health conditions. Kevin worked as a teacher in Steiner-Waldorf schools for ten years and co-founded Bothmer Movement Online to train teachers on playful pedagogies. Kevin is a published songwriter with a top 40 chart single which appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Disks. Kevin is an Associate Practitioner of Climate Museum UK and Associate Lecturer in Creative Learning at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Tom Mansfield is the founder at Pale Blue where he offers Coaching, Consulting and Communications all in service to Planetary Health. Self taught in many subjects as an autodidact he naturally creates systems, spaces and programmes for participatory learning.
As a generalist he has a broad range of professional experience from Sustainable Construction and Carbon Removal consulting to Public Events, Arts & Entertainment. He has certified training in NLP, Permaculture and Ecolinguistics. His passions are for writing and performing poetry and creating containers for personal development work. He recently became a Bio-leadership fellow where he now leads the All Fellows programme and continues to deepen his practice of nature connection and life centered leadership. His current focus is a project called Cards for Life which is bringing people together across countries and sectors through a shared vocabulary of regeneration.
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