Centre for Pedagogy Futures

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.