Researching Creative Subjects and Sectors

How can we re-envision the future of creative labour that not only enacts and drives change but equips every individual to collectively and creatively thrive?

How can we creatively build new understandings on the educational pipelines and pathways into creative subject study and what are the critical transition points of 'chance' and 'choice'. These pressing inquiries lie at the heart of mechanisms of education stratification, individual choice, and their links to the labour market and the creative sector to the UK economy.

In this talk, Pamela Burnard introduces a funded study that trouble these issues using a combination of national data to look for the big-picture trends and qualitative arts-based workshops to explore the role of further and higher education institutions, individual student experiences, and professional creatives' pipeline perspectives.

She introduces the development of 'zines', which are small individually-made DIY booklets which can contain poetry, narrative, drawings, and collage, and co-creation of 'cartographies' which collectively encourage and map responses to and interactions with related images and text (media headlines).

How do these creative research methods cultivate a questioning relationship as a way to empower self- and collective- authoring and participation across sectors? The implications for reimagining participatory workshops of the possible will be discussed.

How to take part

The purpose of this connection event is to bring together attendees to provide an opportunity to network, to share ideas and insights.

Due to the two way interactive nature of the event, this event will not be recorded and certificates of attendance will not be issued.

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Speaker - Professor Pamela Burnard

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

She has published widely with 20 books and over 120 articles which advance the theory and practice of pluralising creativities across education and industry sectors including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher/further education, through to creative and cultural industries.

Current funded projects include 'Choices, Chances and Transitions around Creative Further and Higher Education' (funded by The Nuffield Trust). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, UK and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI) and Governor of and Professor-in-Residence at the University of Cambridge Primary School.