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In this arts-based participatory session we will explore and co-create and execute what matters in reimagining the possibility of: (a) proactively changing (y)our arts educational trajectory; (b) broadening (y)ours and (y)our students’ choices and visibilities, and; (c) re-seeing how arts decision-makers and arts change-makers perform the plurality of arts creativities. Participants will have the opportunity to positively alter (y)our paths by making the inklings of your imagination real and making possibilities happen.
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Pamela Burnard is an expat Australian Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations who works at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She is an artist, educator, researcher, academic and activist reimagining future learning and career pathways. She has published widely with 25 books and over 150 articles which advance the theory and practice of multiple creativities across education sectors including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher/further education, through to creative and cultural industries. Her current funded projects include ‘Choices, Chances and Transitions around Creative Further and Higher Education’ (funded by The Nuffield Trust), ‘Digital Playgrounds for Music’ (DPfM) (funded by Huddersfield University and ESRC). Her most recent books include ‘Eruptive Research: Changing Landscapes on Research in Teaching and Learning’ (2025, (Brill-i-Sense), ‘Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip hop, Techno, Grime and More (OUP, 2023), ‘Unlocking Research: Sculpting Creativities in Primary Education’ (Routledge, 2022) and ‘Pluralising Creativities’ (2025, in production). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, (CCT), Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI) and Professor-in-Residence (and Governor) at The University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS).
