Dr Louise Lambert
Dr Lou Lambert has a background in schools’ education, initial teacher education and postgraduate education leadership. She is currently an Associate Professor at BCU where she teaches, researches, and writes about pedagogical practices across educational sectors and the use of arts-based, participatory and creative methodologies for both research and practice in educational and community contexts.
Her most recent funded projects have used graphic storytelling to explore experiences of hybrid learning in Higher Education (Society for Education Studies), arts-based collaborative mapping of young people and families’ experiences of learning during the pandemic in Europe (ERASMUS), the use of creative methods to explore experiences of teacher-educators and academics in Vietnam (British Council), the professional learning of teachers studying Masters’ degrees (BCU) and the use of collage to explore the experiences of Early Career Teachers (EdD thesis).
Her published work explores relational and diffractive pedagogies, teachers’ professional learning, using creative methods for research and practice and posthuman theory. She co-edited a book about teaching English: Rethinking and Reviving Subject English: the Murder and the Murmur (Routledge).
Lou also has also acted in a consultancy role for using digital storytelling as a research method and has co-developed and delivered Continuing Professional Development (CPD) short course for young people’s use of social media, mental health and wellbeing.