Staff
Graham Jeffery
BA (Cantab), MA, PGCE
Reader in Music and Performance
Graham.Jeffery@uws.ac.uk
Tel: 01292 886328
Fax: 01292 886371
Room: J136
Profile
Before joining UWS as Reader in Music and Performance in 2008, Graham was a Senor Research Fellow at the University of East London (UEL) and a consultant specialising in arts education, creative pedagogies, and culture-led urban regeneration. For the decade before moving to Scotland with his family in 2005, Graham worked in East London, where he led the NESTA-funded Pathways into Creativity action research project at Newham Sixth Form College and was Programme Leader for Performing Arts at UEL.
Graham is a Specialist Advisor for the Scottish Arts Council and is retained by England's Department for Children, Schools and Families as a specialist advisor on creativity in education. He was a member of the national committee that undertook the Roberts Review: Nurturing Creativity in Young People in 2005. Graham has published work on creativity, participatory pedagogies and cultural policy, as well as working as a performer, composer and facilitator in a wide range of settings.
Graham’s work as a composer includes many film and performance projects with communities supported by the British Council, LIFT, East London Dance and the UK Film Council. He also acted as a curriculum advisor and tutor for the Teacher-Artist Partnership professional development programme for London-based teachers and artists. He has been invited to speak at many conferences and events in the USA, Australia and Europe about leadership, creativity and arts education, including work for Arts Council England, Arts and Business, NESTA, and at events sponsored by UNESCO. Recent research and practice includes leading professional development work for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a study, commissioned by the Department for Culture Media and Sport and Arts Council England exploring the role of the arts in community radio, and a three year AHRC-funded project exploring the discourses of learning and inclusion in informal performing arts projects with young people.
Research Interests
Creativity in education/Critical Pedagogy/Discourses of creativity, collaboration and partnership/Cultural and educational policy/Participatory arts – theory and practice/Mediascapes/Sociology of music/Performance and Performativity/Urban regeneration/Urban education.
Affliations
- Journal of Arts and Communities (Editorial Board Member)
- CapeUK (Associate/Consultant)
- Teacher-Artist Partnership Programme (Curriculum advisor)
- Scottish Arts Council (Specialist Advisor, Dance Dept.)
- Department for Children, Schools and Families (member of Creativity Advisory Team, with CapeUK).
Academic Refereeing
- Journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity (Elsevier)
- International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Ingenta)
- Creative Partnerships Research Call, Arts Council England.
External Examining
- 2008 BA(Hons) Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University 2005
- 2006 MMus Leadership, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Publications
Books and Monographs
- Jeffery, G. and Ledgard, A. (in preparation) Teacher Artist Partnership Programme (TAPP): A Professional Development Model for artists and teachers in partnership, Leeds: CapeUK
- Jeffery, G. (ed.) (2005) The creative college: building a successful learning culture in the arts, Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- Jeffery, G. (in preparation): ‘Defining ‘creative partnerships’ in education: concepts, contexts and conflicts’, in Townley, B. and Beech, N. (eds) The discipline of creativity: exploring the paradox, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Jeffery, G., Cochrane, P. and Craft, A. (2008) ‘Suspending disbelief? Perspectives on the creativity agenda in education policy’, in Sefton-Green, J., (ed) Creative Learning, London: Creative Partnerships
- Blake, A. and Jeffery G. (2001) ‘Strengthening local cultures in the ‘global city’: music, representation and cultural policy in Newham’, in Rising East the Journal of East London Studies, Vol 4 No 3, 2001
- Blake, A. and Jeffery G. (2001) ‘The implications of The Value of Music in London for local and regional music policy’, Commentary on The Value of Music in London, in Cultural Trends No 38
Chapter in Government policy document
- Jeffery, G. and Cochrane, P. (2006) ‘Leading creative learning: developing creativity in initial teacher education, leadership and CPD’, part of Nurturing Creativity in Young People: Roberts Review of Creativity in Schools, London: HMSO
Commissioned reports
- Allen, K. , Cochrane, P., Jeffery, G., and Price, D. (2007): Creativity, Creative Partnerships and the Further Education Sector: a scoping study, London: Creative Partnerships
- Jeffery, G. and Cochrane, P. (2007) The Arts in Community Radio: a report for DCMS and Arts Council England on the roles and potential opportunities for the arts in the community radio sector, Sheffield: Community Media Association/DCMS/ACE
- Jeffery G., Braybrook, S. and Groves, M. (2005) The Source: how Creative Partnerships is working with vocational and enterprise learning, London: Creative Partnerships/Arts Council England
Commissioned music composition for film and television
- For all the Tea in England, Film London/Newham Film Fund, 2007
Selected for: Rushes Soho Short Film Festival, Marbella Film Festival, BBC Film Network - The Seafront, London, Redcurrent Films, 2006
Selected for: Document 6 International Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow, Winner, 2nd Prize in CurrentTV launch contest - Azan: A Call To Prayer, Film London/UK Film Council, Redcurrent Films, 2006
Selected for: BFI London Film Festival, Birds Eye View Film Festival, Chili Film Festival, Rosh’d International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, Videotivoli Festival, Tampere, Finland, Jana International Film Festival, Beirut, Dresden Filmfest Short Film Festival, BBC Film Network, - Journeys Across My City: Buenos Aires, London, Redcurrent Films, 2004
Selected for: VIDEOTIVOLI Festival inTampere, Finland Mar 2007, The Guardian/Avalon Film Festival Dec 2006, East End Film Festival May 2006, Redshift Film Festival, USA Feb 2006, Propeller TV, Jan 2006, Community Channel, Nov 2005, BBC Big Screen Birmingham, Nov 2005, Barcelona International Television Festival, Spain, Nov 2005, Lineout CAN Film Festival, Leicester UK, Oct 2005, UNESCO Web Platform, Oct 2005, Document3 Human Rights Int'l Film Festival, Glasgow UK, Oct 2005, Sept 2005 Auburn Film Festival for Children and Young Adults, Australia, Talent Circle Super Shorts Festival, UK, Sept 2005, Channel Four's Ideasfactory, Rolling Stock Film Festival, June 2005, July 2005 Gorilla Cinema, Films4Lives G8 Summit, Gleneagles, Scotland, Showcomotion Films4Lives Festival, Sheffield, June/July 2005, Metro Cinema Derby, series of screenings with 'Maria Full of Grace' May 2005. - Shadows, London, NewVIc New Media, 2001
Selected for: Festival Iberoamericano de Cortos Imagenes Jovenes Buenos Aires, Nov 2004, Liverpool FACT 2003, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2002, Edinburgh International Film Festival Videotheque, 2002, Zlin International Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2002, Ulisses Festival, Lisbon 2002, Kino Film Festival, Manchester 2001, Juice Film Festival, Sussex 2001
Video (camera/sound/editing)
- The Cave, 2008, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Commercially released CDs (as performer/pianist)
- Judas As Black Moth, Current 93, Castle Music, CMEDD1160, 2005
- How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon, Current 93 Live at St George the Martyr Anglican Church, Toronto, Durtro/Jnana 2004CD, 2005
- Halo: Current 93 Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Durtro/Jnana 1977 CD, 2004
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
- Expanding the learning soundscape: notes from some interventions in urban arts education, Invited speaker at Sound and the City, Centre for Research in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, February 2008
- Territorial skirmishes, border crossings and ideological conflicts in the terrain of teacher-artist partnerships, Invited speaker for seminar in the School of Education, University of Cambridge, January 2008
- Sustaining innovation and partnership in youth arts, culture and education,
Education, Culture and Citizenship conference organised by the Interarts Foundation, Barcelona, June 2006 - Networks in Urban Settings: the importance of place (invited keynote speaker)
Demos, Open Secrets seminar series, Westminster, (with Secretary of State for Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell), January 2006 - Teacher as artist, learner, researcher: extending the boundaries of professional practice
Invited speaker at Becoming a Research-enabled School,, London, September 2005
(organised by NFER with support from NCSL and NESTA) - Young people and cultural leadership in an international context
Invited speaker for London 2012 Exploring Internationalism symposium, UEL Docklands Campus, June 2005 - Outside-In? Designing live projects in collaboration with creative professionals
Scottish Further Education Unit: Scotland’s Colleges Annual Conference, December 2004 - Models of education-community-arts partnership from Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc), East London
International Congress on Cultural Rights and Human Development, Universal Forum of Cultures, Barcelona 2004 (supported by UNESCO and the Spanish and Catalan government). Invited speaker for panel on arts education organised by European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Managing Creative Partnerships: problems, issues and prospects,
AHRC-funded seminar at University of Dundee, March 2007 - Convenor of panel on Creativity and Cultural Policy Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, July 2006 (with Professor Andrew Blake)
- Leading Creative Learning, This Learning Life, School of Education, University of Bristol, April 2006
- Young people, risk and the business of creativity: perspectives from east London
Risky Business Symposium, University of Melbourne, Australia, October 2005 - Teacher as social or cultural entrepreneur? Exploring the boundaries of teachers’ professional identities through partnership working
British Educational Research Association, UMIST, September 2004 - Organisational hacking: how to sustain innovation in confusing institutions
InnoEd, the First International Innovation Education Conference, ‘Technologies of Learning: Dimensions of Flexibility and Creativity for Preferable Futures.’
School of Education, University of Leeds, July 2004 - Equal Exchange? Models of university/community arts partnership in Newham, East London
- Creative Clusters: international conference on creative industries development, Brighton, April 2004
- Models of ‘creative partnership’: implications for teachers, institutions and curriculum management
CEDAR Annual Conference, University of Warwick, on Widening Participation: research, policy and practice, March 2004 - Teaching creatively, learning creativity? What can the Pathways into Creativity study tell us?
NESTA: The Event, Commonwealth Institute, London, January 2004 - Models of higher education/community arts partnership from the UK
Community Arts Partnership Institute, California State University at Monterey Bay, June 2003 - Community Music – Whose community, which musics?
World Congress of International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Turku, Finland, July 2002 (with Professor Andrew Blake)
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contributing to Dissertation and Music Research Methods modules in 2008 -9
RECENT GRANTS
- (2006 – 2009 £178,000 Arts and Humanities Research Council (responsive mode Research Grants scheme) Creative industries and social inclusion: young peoples’ pathways through informal and community learning in the performing arts (co-investigator with Alice Sampson, University of East London)
- (2007) £3,000 British Council (Spain)
Funding towards the cost of bringing artists, teachers and policymakers from Spain to an international symposium on arts education in the UK - (2007) £58,000 Creative Partnerships National Office
- Mediated Conversations at a Cultural Trading Post: a study of the potential and possibilities of Teacher-Artist Partnerships (co-investigator with Professor David Jenkins)
- (2006) £50,000 Arts Council England/DCMS
Mapping study on the role of the arts in the community radio sector (with CapeUK) - (2004) £5,000 British Council (Argentina): Journeys Across My City film project
- (2002) £160,000 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA): Pathways into Creativity practitioner-led action research project based at Newham Sixth Form College
RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES
- Highland Cafe, BBC Radio Scotland, 21st June 2007
Interviewee for programme on residency with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- The Learning Curve, BBC Radio 4, 14th May 2007
Invited guest for a live studio discussion on creativity and education policy
CONSULTANCY and PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 2007 - present: Appointed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families as specialist advisor on creativity and education policy (with CapeUK)
- 2007 - present: Appointed by the Scottish Arts Council as a Specialist Advisor to the Dance and Education Departments – most recently consulted on Learning and Skills strategy as part of the transition to Creative Scotland
- 2007: Commissioned by Creative Partnerships to undertake a scoping study/stakeholder consulation on the future engagement of Creative Partnerships with the Further Education Sector (with CapeUK)
- 2007: Designed and led professional development residency for artists and orchestral musicians in Durness, Sutherland (commissioned by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra).
- 2006: Commissioned by Arts Council England, DCMS and the Community Media Association to undertake a national mapping/scoping study on the role of the arts in community radio (with CapeUK)
- 2006 - 2007: City University, London: partnership development and programme design consultancy for new Foundation Degrees in broadcast media and creative industries, in association with the Roundhouse
- 2006: Cape UK: research report for Musical Futures project sponsored by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
- 2005 - 2007: NESTA: project supervisor for digital media project at Lister Community School, East London, and participation in network of ‘legacy’ projects funded by the NESTA Learning Programme
- 2005 – present: Consultant, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Application screening. curriculum support for arts colleges, and work on CPD toolkits for teachers
- 2005: E15 Acting School/University of Essex: Curriculum design and consultancy in developing a new Foundation Degree in Community Theatre
- 2004 – present: Teacher-Artist Partnership Programme (TAPP): Curriculum advisor and tutor for a large scale pan-London professional development programme for teachers and artists delivered by a consortium including LIFT, NewVIc, CAPE UK and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, DFES Innovation Unit, Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Co-ordinated two international study visits to Barcelona, and an international seminar in London, and tutored participants (programme accredited at postgraduate level by Institute of Education, University of London)
- 2004 – 5: Creative Partnerships (National Office, Arts Council England): scoping study on vocational and enterprise learning (with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust)