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Dr. des. Sophie Mak-Schram

Dr. des. Sophie Mak-Schram

  • Position: Lecturer in Pedagogies of Art: Practice and History
  • Areas of expertise: Artistic research; radical pedagogies; decolonial methodologies; modern and contemporary art history; socially engaged art

Profile

I work across art and education to think with others – including artists, activists, educators and learnings – about how learning happens, the histories of knowing in the arts and methodologies of education. My background spans experiential education, socially engaged art and 20th – 21st century art history. Alongside my research, which aims to operate in praxis to the people, methods and ideas I study with, I also make and exhibit work.

Responsibilities

  • Curriculum Redefined Transformative Educator

Research interests

My research interests include methodologies of learning, artistic practices of situated or place-based learning, ‘alternatives’ to formal education and decolonising histories of education and art making.

I co-convene Gentle Gestures, a porous network of researchers working around themes of alternative pedagogies in and through the arts, alongside Dr. Paul Alexander Stewart (Teesside University), Anouk Hoogendoorn (Teesside University / ZhdK) and Roshana Rubin Mayhew (RCA). This group is part hosted by the University of the Arts, Helsinki’s Artist Pedagogy project.

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD, Zeppelin University
  • Research MA, Leiden University
  • PGCert, University of Leeds
  • BA, University of York