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Pamela Burnard, Professor

Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at Faculty of Education

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She has published widely with 20 books and over 120 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. She is co-editor of the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity. Her most recent co-edited books include ‘The Routledge Companion to Musical Creativities’ (Routledge, 2023), Music for Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond: Hip Hop Techno, Drive and More (Oxford University Press, 2023), ‘Doing Rebellious Research in and Beyond the Academy’’ (Brill-i-Sense, 2022), ‘Unlocking Research: Sculpting New Creativities (Routledge, 2022) and ‘Why Sciences and Arts Creativities Matter’ (Brill-i-Sense, 2020). She is currently writing a book entitled ‘The Power of Pluralising Creativities: A Posthuman Perspective’ (Brill-i-Sense, 2025). Her most recent coauthored journal articles include ‘Sensing bodies: Transdisciplinary enactments for educational future making’ in Digital Culture and Education Journal (2023) and ‘Inviting a (Re)Orientation to ‘Musicking-as-Play’ in Higher Music Education Performance Studies: Insights from Three Genre Performance Practices in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (2024). Current funded projects include ‘Choices, Chances and Transitions around Creative Further and Higher Education’ (The Nuffield Trust), and ‘Creative Learning in Higher Education Teaching of BioEconomics’ (CL4Bio) (Erasmus); ‘Rhythmic Healing: Drumming Practices and Transdisciplinary Responses to Tackling Trauma’ (AHRC). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, UK and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI).

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