We are delighted that Curie has joined the CEL team this week.
Curie says:
I am delighted to join the CEL team as senior lecturer and PGCE Programme leader. CEL’s work dovetails with my interests in innovative practice for teaching and learning. I am interested in embodied cognition, the co-construction of knowledge via making, visual research methodologies, and medical/ health humanities. For my PhD, I designed a four week Drawing Programme fusing drawing methodology and phenomenography. The process of drawing, discussion and reflection enabled Health professional students and people over 60 interrogate their previously uncritiqued assumptions or “truths” absorbed from the culture about drawing and ageing.
Drawing and artistic knowing through making has potential across academic disciplines. I facilitate workshops with adults that utilise images and making processes. For example: collages to develop research questions with doctoral students; projective timelines for future professional development; and run workshops in the community using drawing and, separately, origami. I was on television last year on Make Craft Britain and started Drawing Edges, an interdisciplinary discussion and drawing group (I hope to start one here too!)
Previously, I’ve taught health professional students for 15 years at Canterbury Christ Church University, and worked as a medical doctor in London. I also exhibit and sell my work as a painter and origami artist.
I’m looking forward to the richness and vibrancy that Bournemouth University offers. Please call or email if you are interested in the PGCE, visual research, drawing or ageing!
