This approach has been developed through a career that bridges the academy and practice—working in arts, placemaking, and civic engagement—where learning is not confined to formal settings but takes place wherever people come together to reflect, make, and create. I see cultural experience as a catalyst for transformation, and learning as a lifelong, embodied process. My pedagogy draws on critical and aesthetic traditions in arts-based education, while also engaging with contemporary questions of identity, equity, and public value.

Cultural learning, as I practise it, is a socially embedded and expressive process. It works with cultural meanings, stories, artefacts, and identities to foster understanding of the self and society. It is a relational, co-constructed practice that values the diverse cultural references each learner brings. Influenced by thinkers such as Anna Cutler and Tim Jones, my pedagogy embraces creativity as a civic and educational force—one that can generate insight, foster inclusion, and support change in both people and places.