Dr

Penny Hay

Personal statement

Dr Penny Hay (National Teaching Fellow, FRSA, FHEA, FCCT) is an artist, researcher and educator. Penny is a Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning and Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education and also Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries.

Previously Penny was a teacher with responsibility for the arts, advisory teacher for art and lecturer in arts education at Goldsmiths College, the Institute of Education, University of London, Roehampton Institute and the University of the West of England.

Penny has worked extensively in arts education across the UK and co-ordinated the professional development programme for the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD). She was instrumental in setting up the National Artist Teacher Scheme with Arts Council England and NSEAD that offers teachers the opportunity to develop their own creative practice, culminating in the first summer school at Tate Modern.

Penny coordinated CEDES (Creative Education: Disaffection, Exclusion and Society): a two-year action research project, in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Education and Democracy at the University of the West of England. She was also a Creative Agent for Creativity Culture and Education (CCE) and co-convened the SW Hub for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, researching the Power of the Arts in Primary Schools.

Penny is a member of the Crafts Council Learning and Development Advisory Group, HundrED Advisory Group, Cultural Learning Alliance Advisory Group, RSA Innovative Education Network, BERA Creativity in Education Special Interest Group and Chair of the Creative Practice Research Group in Bath Spa University's Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries. Penny is the Strand lead for Creative Pedagogy in Centre for Policy, Pedagogy and Practice and Associate Director of the Centre in Transnational Creativity and Education TRACE. She is co-chair of the research group eARTh focusing on Education, Arts and Environment. Penny works internationally with University Autonoma Barcelona on a Eurasmus+ Research Project, Interstice and with University of Agder, Norway on pARTiciPED.

Penny is an artist researcher on the Global Challenges Research (AHRC) project in Dharavi Mumbai: ‘Rethinking waste and the logics of disposability’, Compound 13 Lab is an experimental learning space, built on methodological and pedagogical innovation, where issues of work, waste, education and sustainability are explored to develop a 'living curriculum' for young people.

Penny integrates her experience in arts and education with participative action research, engaging individuals, institutions and communities. Her doctoral research focused on how as adults we support children's identity as artists. Penny is a school governor and active in children's rights. She is an elected Fellow of the RSA and has awards from Action for Children’s Arts and Creative Bath.

Current signature projects are:

• House of Imagination
• Forest of the Imagination
• City of Imagination
• School without Walls

Previously Penny has also worked on:

• Sense of Place research project
• Tackling Underachievement through Creativity in Primary Mathematics

Penny is also a visiting lecturer at Plymouth College of Art.

Academic qualifications

• PhD - Bath Spa University
• MEd - Bath Spa University.

Professional qualifications

• FRSA
• FHEA
• FCCT.

Professional memberships

• RSA
• Sightlines Initiative
• Action for Children's Arts
• Engage
• Tate.

Other external roles

• RSA Fellow, Co-chair RSA Bath
• What Next? West Co-chair
• South West Creative Education Network
• Action for Children's Arts Executive
• Bath Cultural Education Partnership
• Cultural Learning Alliance Advisory Group
• Crafts Council Learning and Development Advisory Group
• RSA Innovative Education Network
• BERA Creativity in Education Special Interest Group
• HunderED Advisory Group

Teaching specialism

• Arts education and creativity; Visual Art; Creative Pedagogy
• Teaching: PGCE Primary and Early Years, Arts Specialsism, Education Studies, Guest lecturer for Artist Teacher Scheme and Graduate opportunities; PMP tutor; CPD
• Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange
• Strand lead for Creative Pedagogy in Centre for Policy, Pedagogy and Practice.

External examiners

• University of Wales in Newport graduate Art Education courses 2002-5.

Recent professional updating

• School of Education Research Seminars
• Research Fellow Network
• Issues in Creative Practice: Creative Conversations
• National Cultural Education Partnerships Peer Learning Programme.