KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Pamela Burnard, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK

'Revisioning Creative Approaches to Learning and TEaching: Lessons from Posthuman Inquiry'

Pamela Burnard is a Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, the University of Cambridge. She has published widely with 20 books and over 100 articles which advance the theory of multiple creativities across education sectors including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher education, through to creative and cultural industries and transdisciplinary (STEAM) practices. She is co-editor of the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity. Some of her recent publications include 'Doing Rebellious Research in and beyond the Academy' (Brill-i-Sense 2022); 'Why Science and Arts Creativities Matter: (Re-)Configuring STEAM for Future-making Education (Brill-i-Sense, 2020); Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education (Routledge, 2021). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, UK.

Vlad Glaveanu, PhD, School of Psychology at Dublin City University, Ireland; University of Bergen, Norway

'Pedagogies of the Possible: Reimagining Education'

Vlad Glaveanu, PhD, is a Full Professor of Psychology at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway. He has published widely in the field of creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, social media, perspective-taking, wonder, and human possibility. He is the founder and director of the Possibility Studies Network, editor of the Sage journal Possibility Studies and Society, editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, and of the Cambridge Series in Possibility Studies, with Cambridge University Press. His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017), authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020); Creativity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021); and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas. In 2018, he was awarded the Berlyne Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 10) for early career contributions to the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.