In 2022 we evaluated Arts Education Exchange‘s organisational practice and supported the development of their creative learning framework. We also worked with them to develop a creative evaluation toolkit.

We interviewed staff, carried out a policy review and ran an evaluation workshop with staff. We also organised scribing workshops led by the artist Una, where young people involved with Arts Education Exchange were introduced to scribing as a powerful tool to tell stories, capture events and express emotions.

Supported by the University of Kent

In this interactive, creative workshop in summer 2022, participants were prompted to explore our complex and varied relationships to the ocean, its politics and social, political and cultural meanings.

Collaborating with a team from the University of Kent, including Declan Wiffen, we led a ‘cruising nature’ walk and facilitated collage and creative writing responses. Themes included pollution, seaweed and affect, bodies and identity, asylum seeking and activism, (in)visibility.

Hosted at the Turner Contemporary and supported by the University of Kent

We have 10+ years experience researching, developing and implementing EDI/DEI policies, as key institutional EDI role holders at the University of Kent and trade unions.

Examples of work in the area include research and policy development in relation to reasonable adjustments for staff, creating inclusive hiring policies, promoting gender equality and an equal pay audit.

This project mapped working conditions for LGBT+ staff in higher education, finding statistically significant patterns of a hostile and discriminatory work environment associated with high levels of poor mental health and burnout among minoritised staff. See: LGBT-HE.

A collaborative project with Beauty Out of Ashes and Unit38 architects, arising out of advocacy around the closure of HMP Holloway, this feasibility study lays the groundwork for a new Women’s Building. Completed in 2024, the study is informed by extensive community engagement, qualitative research with women’s organisations, and creative workshops with women as future visitors to the building.

The aim is to design and financially model a sustainable, independent and trauma-informed home for women’s services in London, as a living legacy of HMP Holloway and the women who were imprisoned there.

Supported by Disrupt Foundation and the Independent Social Research Foundation

This online event in summer 2022 brought together thinkers, writers, cultural producers and activists to explore contemporary and marginalised perspectives on freedom.

We welcomed speakers Farzana Khan, Mia Harris, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, and Lou Macnamara and Kyla Harris. Space was built in for reflection and creative writing responses, creating a nourishing and slow space of connection.

At this collage workshop at the ‘Festival of Ideas’ at the University of Kent in 2022, participants explored how they might represent sound and the sensory in their research through collage.

This training workshop generated productive conversations about methods, positionality and creative research outputs.