Julia Skilton (PhD student)

Thesis title: Crafting STEAM: an inquiry into material practices to enact a sustainable education

Biography

Background

I am a final year PhD student at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Laura Colucci-Gray and Dr Ramsey Affifi. My research - Crafting STEAM: an inquiry into material practices to enact a sustainable education - originates from fifteen years of social impact work and education programming in the jewellery industry. I focus on the educational opportunities of material engagement, working with theory of enactive cognition. I am exploring through an autoethnography and ethnography, analysed through arts based methods, the potential for technical craft to enact a sustainable education.

Qualifications

MSc Climate Change (Education Dissertation), Birkbeck, University of London; BSc Environmental Management, University of Birmingham

Responsibilities & affiliations

Member of British Educational Research Association; Member of European Educational Research Association; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts  

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