employment
Goldsmiths University of London
Sept 2022-currently Professor of Pedagogy and Praxis
Sept 2019-Sept 2023. Academic Director International Development and Academic Partnerships.
Sept 2018-Sept 2019. Head of Research Centre for Arts and Learning (CAL).
March 2016- Sept 2023 Head of PhD Art Practice and Learning.
June 2015-Sept 2018. Head of Masters Studies
June 2014-Dec 2015. Curator of Social Practice: Centre for Arts and Learning.
Aug 2012-Sept 2022. Senior Lecturer
Sept 2011-Sept 2015. Head of MA Artist Teacher and Contemporary Practices
Sept 2008-2011 Coordinator of Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Art and Design- Secondary).
Nov 2004-Aug 2012. Lecturer B.
output
selected outputs for download- https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/TaraPage
cv- https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/TaraPage/CurriculumVitae
funded research
2023-2024 SenSS Training Partnership- Methods and Approaches to Practice Research. Principle Investigator £10k
2023-2026 Arts Council England Artsmark Award. National Delivery Partner Principal Investigator £700k
2021-2022 Arts Council England Local Cultural Education Partnerships- future investment of National Lottery Place Partnership Fund. PI £20k
2015-2016 . Goldsmiths Research and Enterprise Committee What is Practice Research in Educational Studies? Chief Investigator (CI) £2k
2009-2010 . National Society of Education Through Art and Design (NSEAD). The impact of the Artist Teacher in Contemporary Practices MA on students' pedagogical and artistic practices- research report. Chief Investigator (CI) £2k
2006-2008 . NESTA Teaching, Learning and Communicating through Contemporary Art Practices. Partner Investigator (PI) £79k
2006. National Society of Education Through Art and Design (NSEAD). Evaluation and research report on the NSEAD/DFES/BECTA 2005-2006 CPD CI £5k
qualifications
2023 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.
2012 PhD. Thesis: Place and Belonging: Ways of knowing and learning in the Australian bush. Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
2003 Masters of Education MEd (Research) Dissertation: The conceptions of visual art education programmes in a rural and isolated community. Queensland University of Technology (AUS)
1996 Postgraduate Diploma in Education GRADDIP (Secondary) Art and Design and History. Queensland University of Technology (AUS)
1995 Bachelor of Arts (Honours). BAVA Visual Arts- Sculpture, Photography and Mixed Media Queensland University of Technology (AUS)
professional activities
I examine, assess, and review:
grant applications (Research Council of KU Leuven-Belgium, the Austrian Science Fund- 'Richter-PEEK- for arts-based research and the Swiss National Science Foundation SPARK funding scheme- to develop and test novel and unconventional scientific approaches, methods, theories, and ideas)
PGT learning programmes (Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, IoE, Roehampton)
PhD submissions (Norway, Netherlands, UK, Australia)
articles (MATTER: Journal of New Materialist Research; Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Culture and Society; MAI: Feminism & Visual Cultures and Social Sciences, Arts, European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education)
monograph manuscripts and proposals (Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan)
2009-2013 Board member Publications for the National Society for Education through Art and Design. Includes Editorial Board of the International Journal of Art and Design Education
2005-2009 Co-editor International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE)
supervision
2022. Clare Stanhope. PhD Art Practice and Learning. PhEminist Skins of Resistance: Decolonising the female nude through practiceresearch with young women artists. Goldsmiths. UK
2017. Amba Sayal-Bennet. PhD Art Practice and Learning. Posthuman Pedagogy: Affective Learning Encounters in Studio Art Practice. Goldsmiths UK
2018. Camilla Stanger. PhD Education. "we rehearsed ... we was serious ... they're my girls": developing. An embodied pedagogy of hope with young black women 'at risk' of exclusion in an inner London college. Goldsmiths UK
2019. Angela Giglotti. PhD Art Practice and Learning. Creating a Critical Pedagogy of Place with Marginalized Youth in Barrio Logan. Goldsmiths. UK
I supervise and examine PhDs in the areas of practice research and empirical research including:
Performance and aesthetics
Bodies and the sensory- embodiment
Learning communities
Placemaking and belonging
Pedagogy in formal and informal contexts
Critical and creative pedagogies
Materiality of pedagogy
Socially-engaged practices