Members

CEEN is comprised of core and associate members including academic staff in the School of Education (SoE), doctoral students and national and international affiliates.
Interested parties (including students and staff from within and outside of the 樱花动漫 and from any discipline) are welcome to join CEEN. Please contact for more information about the CEEN Network, studying with us or attending our events.

Professor Anna Craft (1961 – 2014)

Academic Lead for Creativity, the Arts and Educational Futures (2007-2014). We will always remember Anna and continue to work with her brilliant ideas. To find out more about her work and legacy please see this archive from a decade-long series of the Anna Craft Memorial Lecture. This ran between 2014 and 2025 to celebrate the profound contributions Anna made to the field of creativity and education.

Staff members


, Associate Professor in Education, School of Education	Network leader
Dr Deborah Osberg, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education	Core member (retired)
, Associate Director of Arts and Culture, UoE	Associate member
, Professor of Science and Environmental Education, University College London	Associate member
Professor Paul Ernest, Emeritus Professor in Mathematics Education	Associate member
, Associate Professor in Education, School of Education	Associate member
, Lecturer in Creativity and Arts Education. School of Education	Core member
, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, School of Education	Associate member
, Lecturer, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, UoE	Associate member
Professor Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Honorary Professor in Education	Associate member
, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education, UoE	Associate member
, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education	Associate member
Dr Christopher Turner, Honorary Lecturer in Education	Associate member
, Senior Lecturer, Drama Department, UoE	Associate member
, Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education	Associate member

Student members

NAME	THESIS TITLE	SUPERVISOR(S)
Yasamiyan Almasoudi	Barriers and opportunities for practising creative teaching in primary level schools in Saudi Arabia for gifted students.	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell
Sue Benton	Inclusivity or integration? An exploration of inclusive mainstream education for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).	Dr Hannah Anglin-Jaffe
Ursula Crickmay	Exploring co-becomings in creative music workshop practices.	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell
Richard D’Souza	Constructing a grounded theory for assessing creativity in children’s narrative writing	Professor Deborah Myhill and Dr Anthony Wilson
James Hunt	How an active pedagogy influences the teaching of, and learning about Shakespeare in Key Stage 4	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell
	I obtained my master’s degree in TESOL from the 樱花动漫 in 2022. My doctoral thesis focused on EAP collaborative teaching in UK universities.	Dr. Esmaeel, Abdollahzadeh
Nancy Katingma Day	Towards a philosophy of education for music education in contemporary Kenya	Dr Jonathan Doney and Dr Deborah Osberg
Alice Potter	The inclusion of children with lesbian or gay parents.	Associate Professor Alexandra Allen
Dr Chryssa Sgouridou		Associate Professor Lindsay Hetherington
Rui Shu	How can traditional culture and creative novelty be symbiotic in Chinese higher education in dance?	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell
Elsa Urmston	The pedagogy of periodization in vocational dance training.	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell
Heather Wren	An affective, embodied empathy for environmental education.	Associate Professor Kerry Chappell

Alumni members

NAME	THESIS TITLE	SUPERVISOR(S)
Dr Alydh Aljeddani	Incorporating sustainable development in social studies and citizenship education curriculum: A collaborative community of practice case study in a Saudi High School context.	Dr Fran Martin
Dr Shazia Awan Nawaz	English language teachers’ perceptions of academic integrity and classroom behaviour of culturally diverse adult English Language Learners (ELLs) in Canada: A critical perspective.	Dr Fran Martin
Dr Andrea Blair	Being in Brazil: An autoethnographic account of becoming ethically responsible as a practitioner-researcher in education.	Dr Fran Martin
Dr Caroline Emeka-Ogbonnia	An emancipatory approach in the use of entertainment in non-formal education for community change.	Dr Deborah Osberg
Dr Linzi McKerr	Birth, death and survival: An Arendtian analysis of pre-service teacher identity on the PGCE route.	Dr Fran Martin
Dr Alison Pearson	Sustaining a teaching career: Listening to teachers' reasons for staying in the profession	Dr Karen Walshe
Dr Anneke Schmidt	Discovering views of the divine: An inter-religious, transcendence- orientated approach to theological content in religious education.	Dr Karen Walshe and Professor Rob Freathy

Affiliate members

Affiliate
Patricia Angoy
Yasamiyan Almasoudi
	Head of Dept., Institute for Arts Education / Associate Professor Deputy Chair, Center of Creativities, Arts and Science in Education (CASE)
	Associate Professor, Practice Learning, Kingston University

Dr Helen Clark	To follow
	Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University
	Visiting Professor, Philosophy, University of Eastern Finland
Katherine Evans
	Professor of Educational & Social Futures, University of Bristol
Maria Falkembach
	Research Manager/Fellow, Norland College, Bath
	Associate Professor, Webster University Geneva
Dr Riadh Ghemmour	Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
James Hull
	NEAG School of Education at University of Connecticut
Nancy Katingma Day
	Professor of Education, Bath Spa University
Dr Fran Martin	Honorary Research Fellow

	Department of Education at University of Vienna (Austria)
Elsa Urmston
	The Yet Project
	Reader in Childhood Studies, University of Bristol
Dr Sharon Witt
	Director, Community Resolve
Heather Wren
	Royal College of Art
Chryssa Sgouridou

Partners

Partner

Western Norway centre of applied science in Education:
Partner Centre:
, University of Bath Spa