Centre for Pedagogy Futures
Focusing predominantly on creative pedagogy, due to the wealth of experience on hand at Falmouth, the Centre for Pedagogy Futures is committed to exploring and critiquing pedagogy for the benefit of individuals, communities and society, with projects that seek to imagine new, and reimagine historic, pedagogic approaches that respond to the social and cultural challenges of the day.
Projects within this Centre
Transversal Imaginaries
Transversal Imaginaries is an evolving platform for rethinking how we learn, research, and create ac...
Decentring through Digitality
Decentring through Digitality is a new online research group based within Falmouth University’s Ce...
Varyon VR
Varyon VR is a virtual theatre space for live and pre-recorded performance.
designdice™
designdice™ is a set of nine co-ordinated dice which are used as a tool to help the creative proce...
Sound/Image Cinema Lab
Based at Falmouth, Sound/Image Cinema Lab has produced a number of regional and national documentari...
Centre overview
The Centre for Pedagogy Futures draws on Falmouth University’s considerable experience of praxis in creative subjects to imagine new ways of teaching creativity and teaching creatively. We are a community of academics, practitioners and practitioner-scholars committed to preserving the value of the arts and humanities and what it brings to society, using pedagogy as a vehicle for creative practice, research, knowledge, and cultural exchange.
Through innovative teaching and research projects, such as the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, and investigative, collaborative partnerships, including our work with Trinity College London, the Centre is committed to developing a greater understanding of how creativity can be taught and learned, the value of creative pedagogy across a spectrum of disciplines, the relationship between skills for life and skills for employment and communicating to a global audience the need for new thinking around relationships between academia, industry and state bodies.
The Centre is developing PhD briefs that explore its key themes. Some are tied to existing projects, and some are focused on work that has the potential to influence (local and national) policy regarding arts and humanities education, the appropriate level of skills and employability that should be embedded in a university degree without it losing its value, and the relationship between creativity and wellbeing on creative courses and courses that utilise creative pedagogies.
What remains opaque in how you study the world?
This call explores study as more than formal learning—study can also be something slower, less defined. Consider it as a lived, embodied, and situated practice shaped by rhythm, place, discipline, technology, and the limits of what can be known. A way of attending, repeating, noticing, and staying with what does not immediately resolve.
Opacity here is not simply an obstacle to overcome, but a generative condition that shapes study itself–to attend to the limits of what can be known, articulated, or accounted for. It marks the partiality of attention, the limits of perception, and the uneven ways knowledge is formed and shared.
This open call welcomes artists, researchers, educators, and thinkers from all disciplines.
Deadline: 01 June 2026
Read more and SUBMIT your PROVOCATION @ https://www.provocations.online/practices-of-study
Provocations are concise, evocative contributions texts, images, sounds, videos, or hybrid forms that open toward unanswerable questions. They may be speculative, poetic, critical and themselves opaque. All submissions will be published online and contribute to a wider series of conversations, including curated conversations at Falmouth University and online with international contributors.
Get involved:
- Explore the extended themes in the full call
- Submit a provocation in your own way
- Indicate if you’d like to join the follow-up conversations
Study beyond acquisition - shaped by rhythm, place, discipline, boundaries, bodies, and technologies.
Opacity beyond obstruction - as a persistent and generative condition in how we each come to know the world.
#provocations #pedagogyfutures
Dr Teoma Naccarato
Centre Lead
I work across choreography, philosophy, and technology, examining how movement is sensed, represented, and valued in contemporary culture. I approach choreography as a way of organising relationships between bodies, technologies, and differentiated ways of knowing. As Lead for the Centre for Pedagogy Futures and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Blended Realities at Falmouth University, I develop artistic, scholarly, and pedagogical approaches to embodiment in technologically mediated environments.
Read Dr Teoma Naccarato's full profileResearch news
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Research opportunities
Research collaboration
We welcome collaboration ideas from researchers, industry and third sector organisations which explore the Research Centre's mission.
If you have a research collaboration idea and would like to discuss it with our team you can get in touch via email.
Research degrees
We accept proposals for MPhil or PhD study from applicants with a project idea of their own which aligns with the aims of the Centre for Pedagogy Futures or as a response to one of our associated Falmouth Doctoral Project briefs below.
Find out more about the application process for MPhil or PhD study with us on our Research Degrees pages:
