- Annouchka Bayley
- Dr Annouchka Bayley (SFHEA) is an Associate Professor in Arts at the Faculty of Educaton, University of Cambridge. She is Chair of the Cambridge Posthuman Network, runs the Entangled Futures Festival, is co-lead of LEAPLab at the CRASSH Centre, and formerly the director and designer of the Arts, Creativities & Education MPhil Programme (2021-24). She has written numerous scholarly books and articles on Posthumanism, Education and Arts and supervises and teaches on posthumanities for complex times. Annouchka's first novel takes a diffractive approach to the historical novel. The Blood Countess, is available now. You can read find interviews with her about the historical and diffractive aspects of the book on BBC News, The Independent, CBS News, abc News, The Washington Times and more.
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Batya Reich
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- Batya Reich is a performer, improviser and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate at Cambridge University in the Faculty of Education. She specializes in theatre education and exploring the drama classroom as protective space. Her current research focuses on experiences of gender and identity within UK Drama education. She also holds an MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education from Cambridge and a BA in Theatre and Child Development from Tufts University. Batya has worked as a teaching artist for over 8 years; her teaching work tends to focus on storytelling, ensemble building, and physical theatre skills.
- Ning Chen
- Ning Chen is a PhD candidate
at the University of Cambridge. She holds a dual undergraduate degree in Visual Arts and Spatial Design from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education from Cambridge. She has interned with Sasaki and Ateliers Jean Nouvel, as well as cultural institutions in China and the UK, gaining experience across digital heritage, interactive design, and participatory learning. Her current research, Fuzzy Forensics, explores posthumanist creativity, authorship, and the ethics of AI in contemporary visual cultures through post-qualitative methods.
More at @fuzzyforensics
Lushi Liu
Lushi Liu is a digital artist, photographer, performer, and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in Photography from the Beijing Film Academy, and later completed her postgraduate studies in Digital Direction at the Royal College of Art. Working as a transdisciplinary artist-researcher, her practice and research are closely aligned with her interests in new materialism and contemporary art. She is currently developing a material–discursive tesseract, also described as a performative lecture, which integrates VR, installation, robotic artworks, and novel writing. Through such practice, she investigates how practice-as-research agentially cut with new materialist theory to critique what is knowledge.
Yueran Yang
Sandy is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. She explores habitats of epistemological sites, with her writing as research, spotted in various forms, attempting an embodied approach of intratextual communications. She holds an MPhil in Arts, Creativity and Education from Cambridge and a BA in Psychology from Boston College.
Girinandini Singh
Girinandini Singh is a doctoral researcher and writer at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She researches affective education, sound, listening, and decolonial practices of knowledge. Her PhD research project is on building a deep listening affective pedagogy. She is the winner of the Simms Prize from Lucy Cavendish College. She also works with museums in their learning and engagement programming, and has designed and taught modules on decoloniality and decolonial research methods with the UK charity organization The Brilliant Club. Her most recent writings can be found in the Arts Education Journal with the National Arts Education Association, and forthcoming chapters with Routledge Press and ESI Press Journal of Decolonizing Disciplines, she is also the editor of the book Living and Loving as Research Methods, forthcoming with Routledge Press.