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Personal Profile For Ms Antonia Clews
Educational Researcher and Developer. Learning and Teaching Development.
Post Graduate Certificate in Research Methodologies [University of Brighton], Portfolio for Professional Accreditation of Associate Teachers in Higher Education. [University of Brighton], Short Course in Teaching Higher Education [University of Brighton], BA Hons Interior Architecture [University of Brighton], BA Hons Interdisciplinary Human Studies [University of Bradford].
Personal Statement:
As Educational Researcher and Developer for Artswork, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the creative industries, at Bath Spa University, I lead two projects.
'Learning in the Arts' is a major longitudinal research project looking at art students' perceptions and experiences ( http://www.artsworkbathspa.com/develop/view-page.php?page=Learning+in+the+Arts ).
10by10 is an inquiry into the experience and role of teacher-practitioners, through a series of workshops and events which explore the links between professional devevelopment and research ( http://10by10.info ) through creative practcie technqiues. I am interested in the concepts of the entrepreneurial educator and the freelance faculty, which link these two projects, particularly through the teacher-practitioner.
I have been a researcher for over five years, mostly in arts education, with a background in design. Previous roles include Educational Researcher and Developer with the Higher Education Learning Partnerships [HELP] CETL at the University of Plymouth, where I managed the Award Holder Scheme which funded pedagogic research projects. Prior to this, I worked as a Research Officer in the Centre of Excellence in Sustainability in the Built Environment at the University of Brighton, School of Environment, and on a number of projects for the Faculty of Art and Architecture. I also delivered a Level 2 module 'Conceptions of Land-scape, for two years, which focused on the relationship between story-telling, experiential learning and cultural theories and visual culture in understanding land-scape as a construct.
Biography:
Following work in the vooultary sector and having extensively refurbished a house, as designer, project manager and builder, I went on to complete a BA in Interior Architecture at the University of Brighton as a mature student. I found a passion for design and architecture and found links with previous interests from my first degree in humanities.
I was very conscious of the learning process and the range of skills and knowledge I developed though studying architecture, including the articulation, abstracting and connecting of ideas through problem solving and experimentation. I graduated with a first class degree and a dissertation prize. My interest in learning through design practice led me to pursue a career in research.
Subject Interests:
Relationship between teaching and arts practice
Inter-disciplinarity and disciplinary difference
Communities of Practice
The design/creative process and learning through design
Landscape [cultural and spatial theory and psycho-geography]
Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:
Clews. A., (2010), 'A multi-media approach to educational research in the creative disciplines'. Media Education Research Journal. Vol 1(1).
Clews. A., (2009), 'The Teacher-Practitioner: Teaching with Practice' in Dialogues in Art and Design: Promoting and Sharing Excellence. GLAD/Higher Education Academy Art, Design, Media Subject Centre, University of Brighton.
Clews. A., (2009), '10by10' in Networks (7), Higher Education Academy Art, Design, Media Subject Centre, University of Brighton.
Walker, A., (2007), 'The Entrepreneurial Educator in Creative Industries Education'. Teachers' Academy Papers, University of Brighton
Stone, M and Walker, A., (2006), 'Progress within the Higher Education Learning Partnerships Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning' in Educational Developments. SEDA June Edition
Walker, A., (2005), 'Teaching Land-scape through Story-telling - Learning from the subjective to traverse disciplines'. CEBE Transactions, Vol. 2, Issue 3, December 2005, pp 30-41 (12) ISSN: 1745-0322 (Online)
http://cebe.cf.ac.uk/transactions/pdf/AntoniaWalker2(3).pdf
Current Scholarship:
6/2010 Workshop 'Practice makes Perfect'for Supporting Creative Industries conf, London
3/2010 'The Teacher-Practitioner; perspectives on professional development'. Higher Education and The Creative Economy, University of Southampton
2/2010 Workshop 'The Teaching Creative' for Teachers Open Evening, Tate Britain.
9/2009 'The Researcher-Facilitator'. International Visual Research Methods, University of Leeds
5/2009 'The Teacher-Practitioner; unproblematic or un-problematised?'From Practice as Research to Practising for Learning', Palatine/University of Winchester, and workshop 'Loci'.
2009 Project leader and co-facilitator of 10by10 workshops; 'Arrival''Space''Index''Loci''Embody''Pause'.
10/2008 'Learning in the Arts'. ISSOTL Edmonton Canada, and workshop 'Connecting Scholarship and Practice: Chair Drawing'.
7/2008 Workshop 'Drawing-Out: the Teacher-Practitioner' for ADM HEA Teaching Creative Practice, Liverpool.
5/2008 Workshop 'Learning in the Arts'for Roehampton University School of Arts Away Day.
5/2008 'The Teaching-Practice Nexus'. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference, London.
5/2008 Workshop 'Data for Development'for SEDA Spring Conference, 'Engaging with Student Expectations', London.
3/2008 'Learning in the Arts'. Creative Enterprise, Birmingham City University.
3/2008 'The Freelance Faculty'. ADM HEA network day, Swansea Metropolitan University.
2/2008 The Teacher-Practitioner 'Preparation for Discovery", staff development event at Bath Spa University.
7/2007 'The Entrepreneurial Educator'. ELIA Teacher's Academy, Brighton.
6/2007 Workshop 'The Entrepreneurial Educator' for CEPA, DeMontfort University.
Recent Professional Updating:
2009 Creative Writing and Part-Time Teaching English HEA event
2009 Building Capacity in Visual Methods, Leicester, 2 day course
2008 Glad conference, Nottingham
2008 Visual Methods Symposium, Oxford
2008 Creative Thinkers=Powerful Minds, Bath Spa, conference
2008 TAPP [Teacher Artist Partnership Programme] consultancy seminar participant
2008 Introduction to Project Management, one day course
2008 ADM HEA Annual Forum 'Knowledge', Salford
2008 Applied Creativity and Creative Leadership training - Sceptre/University of Surrey - 3 day course
2008 Teaching and Learning staff development seminars at Bath Spa
2007 Developing integrative approaches towards scholarship, research and evaluation. C-SAP, University of Birmingham, workshop
2007 ADM HEA Network event Bath Spa University
2007 Creativity or Conformity, UWIC, conference
2006 Challenging the orthodoxies: alternative approaches to educational research, London, conference
2006 SOTL, London, conference
2006 SEDA Summer School for Staff and Educational Developers - 3 day residential course
2006 Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Teaching Research module, University of Plymouth
2006 Research workshop series, University of Plymouth
Last Updated: 16 June 2010.
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