News and Events

2025-26

This year we present a seminar series organised jointly with the Creative Interactions research group. All are welcome – please get in touch if you would like to join us. 

Seminar 1: Creativity and Neurodivergence, 13 November 2025, 12:30pm

Lania Knight will join us to discuss her recent work on creativity, the creative arts, and neurodivergence, including reflections on the project’s major conference last summer.

Seminar 2: Nature and climate, 3 December 2025, 2pm

Lania Knight – The Coastlines Project

Christine Plastow – Mythic Storytelling and the Changing Environment

Seminar 3: Menopause, 21 January 2026, 12:30pm

Shanta Everington – Storying the menopause - a collaborative evocative auto/ethnography

Catherine Pestano – Creativity in the menopause - journey of a theatre piece

Seminar 4: Music, 19 February 2026, 12:30pm

Martin Clark – Creating a new edition and recordings of the first Methodist tune book (1742)

Seminar 5: Pedagogy, 9 March 2026, 12:30pm

Dobrochna Futro – title TBC 

Lilian Simones – Advancing Creativity in Western Vocal and Instrumental Music Education: A Framework for Pedagogical Innovation 

Seminar 6: Trauma, 20 April 2026, 2pm

Adrian Deeny  – title TBC

Patrick Wright  – Ekphrasis as a tool for writing through grief and trauma

Seminar 7: Crossing boundaries, 13 May 2026, 12:30pm

Bob Grumiau –  ‘The Non-Verbal Humanities: on Perception with a Poetic mind’

Catherine Baker – ‘Artists aren't Therapists’