Creative Open Studios

  • Dates: 16 March - 13 April 2026, 16:00 - 15:00
  • Venue:
Book via Business World

Welcome to the Open Studios in this new academic year. This is a space for discussing ideas, sharing creative practice, developing scholarship and designing interventions for problem solving.  it is friendly, safe and experimental. This year we will have a combination of community enhancement, designing ideas to aid creatively in the education strategy, CPDs and guest speakers.

If you are curious, please register on Business World or contact [email protected].

Monday 16 March, 4-5pm

Open Studio: Writing Block surgery with Prof. Parsley
Welcome back to the Open Studios. This is our second of the year, last time we had Professor Ilaria Boncori talking about Writing differently, and in response to your interest, we planned this session on Writing (and other creative) Blocks and how to overcome them. 
Professor Sam Parsley, founder of Curious View Coaching, academic, DJ, artist, writer and writing coach will be responding your questions about writers block. In this interactive presentation, she will be sharing her excellent tips to overcome fears and obstacles, and get writing.  It can be your PhD, a proposal, an article, a book idea, an application or blogging.  This is the opportunity you were waiting for. 
Share it with friends and family, all welcome. No preparation required. 

Monday 13 April 2-3pm

Open Studio 3 - Can we teach creativity? 

In our third studio we will have Emily Patterson, whose session was scheduled for January 2026. 
Emily Patterson, musician, educator, and Associate Learning Designer at Cambridge University Press will share her experience in creative education and design. She will present some of her ideas about engaging with academics and experts for a student centered education. She will draw upon her experience in designing a course on Creativity, Problem Solving and Design, combining the research and experience of educator with the inputs of students, and her role as designer. It will be an interacting session challenging our ways of thinking on creativity. 
As always, share with friends, colleagues, students, family, partners.

 

 

  • Dates: 16 March - 13 April 2026, 16:00 - 15:00
  • Venue:
Book via Business World