Tag: higher education
What could love-led arts and culture leadership look like? Karama: Expressions of Resistance from Gaza at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK, 6 September – 1 November 2025 by cultural leaders Dr Tasnim Rezeq, Martin Ruddock and Ala Mustafa, supported by MA Arts and Cultural Leadership at Winchester School of Art, provides a poetic – and powerful – picture. Kai is supporting as co-curator and co-producer.
The MA Arts and Cultural Leadership at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton is unique in its purpose in not just understanding, but shaping arts and cultural leadership, through critical, (co-)creative and speculative approaches to organising, strategising, visualising/envisioning, curating and/or catalysing positive change, in attitude, culture, policy and/or practice, in, with, for and/or through the arts and culture (to advance areas such as cultural, social and climate justice), through academic, professional, and creative practice.
Conceived in 2019 and research-led, the Masterclasses are a flagship programme of the innovative MA Arts and Cultural Leadership at Art, Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. The Masterclasses are our creative, critical and love-led response to dangerous stories and structures that plague us today and are co-produced with students, who will be leaders tomorrow.
My op-ed ‘What’s Love Got to Do with Neurodiversity and HE Art and Design? discusses the intersection of neurodiversity, the role of higher education art and design to counter the populist, love-less stormy reality today.
Watch my podcast on The Embodied Educator with Dr Liz Wientjes, where I discuss Tentacular Pedagogy and how it relates to social justice and anti-oppression.
This op-ed for The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE, 16 Nov 2022) outlines an inclusive and heuristic (co-) creative teaching/learning praxis that I term ‘tentacular pedagogy’ (TP), that aims to make creative arts in Higher Education more inclusive and socially-engaged, and for CA-HE to play a more (pro-)active leadership role within HE and beyond in nurturing a more creative and compassionate future, amid the perma- and omni-crises within UK HE and beyond.
I was invited by Donald Lush, Careers Consultant at King’s College London, to discuss academic job applications with a focus on equality (or lack thereof!), on 7th May 2021.
It is Disability History Month and this article was published by Manchester Metropolitan University. As its ‘Disabled Staff Role Model’, I talked about being a neurodivergent academic, and how I spent 12 hours to write 160 words in a form.