Professor Pat Thomson
CREFI welcomes Professor Pat Thomson. She is a Professor of Education from the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Nottingham. She will be presenting part of a series of Writing Seminars on the 4th and 11th of June. Click here for more information. Her current research focuses on creativity, the arts and change in schools and communities, and postgraduate writing pedagogies. She is currently devoting more time to exploring, reading and thinking about imaginative and inclusive pedagogies which sit at the heart of change. This involves unfunded pilot and small-scale research with local schools and artists. She is also looking at the ways in which innovative approaches to schooling are spread with /against policy agendas - and within and between countries. She maintains an interest in the changing work of school administrators and in children and young people who do not get the full benefits of education. All of her research is underpinned by a commitment to social justice and an interest in questions of power, identity, place and agency.She has had extensive involvement in school, family and community programmes and works closely with practitioners and pupils as co-researchers. She has expertise in policy, sociology and cultural geography and has a particular interest in text-based and arts informed research methods. She frequently uses visual research methods in her work.
