Dr Miranda Matthews

Staff details

Position Lecturer

Department Educational Studies

Email m.matthews (@gold.ac.uk)

Phone +44 (0)20 717 2227

Miranda Matthews joined Goldsmiths as full time faculty in 2016. Miranda became Associate Head of School for Student Experience in Professional Studies, Science and Technology (PSST) in 2023.

Miranda has directed the Centre for Arts and Learning (CAL) since 2019. She develops programmes of public facing research events and collaborative research projects. Miranda also supports and develops practice research, as Convenor of the PSST Practice Research Network. The PRN validates arts and interdisciplinary practice as a form of research inquiry.

Miranda teaches at all levels of study at Goldsmiths. She is on the BA Education Management Team as Admissions Tutor. Miranda leads Critical Pedagogies in Contested Spaces in the MA Arts and Learning. She is also a tutor on the PGCE Art and Design. Miranda supervises students on the PhD Art Practice and Learning, and also supervises visiting research students.

Academic qualifications

SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2016
PhD Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2012
MFA Masters in Fine Art, University of Reading 2003
BA Fine Art, First Class Honours, Birmingham City University 2000

Research interests

Miranda researches issues of agency and representation in the arts and learning, among arts educators, practitioners, students and faculty. Since 2016 Miranda has researched how arts methods can assist undergraduate students’ sensory transitions into Higher Education. Miranda’s book, Arts Methods for the Self-representation of Undergraduate Students: Sensory Transitions into University Cultures, was published by Routledge in April 2023.

Miranda has developed research with artist teachers, exploring their professionalising supportive networks, and responses to education policy in practice. A chapter in press for this project is: Moving beyond immanence: artist teacher networking and collaborative arts practice, in Rachel Payne (ed.) Artist Teachers: UK Perspectives on Pedagogies, Practices and Partnerships.

During the pandemic of 2020-2021, Miranda created a public facing research project titled Finding Comfort within Discomfort, that investigated the ecosystems of creative resilience that sustained people through difficult times, into post-pandemic creative ecosystems. Articles have been published relating to this project, and Miranda has a forthcoming chapter Finding Comfort within Discomfort: Creative Ecosystems for Learning in the Pandemic in Kelly Murdoch-Kitt and Denielle Emans (eds.) Creative Resilience (2024).

Since 2021 Miranda has researched Ecologies in Practice, for arts practitioners, practice researchers and the vocal, creative empowerment of young people and minoritised groups. She is Principal Investigator for CAL/CMUK Ecologies in Practice: Participatory Arts Methods for Climate Research with Young People.

Publications and research outputs

Matthews, Miranda. 2021. Sensory Literacy and Empowerment in Art and Design. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 40(3), pp. 581-598. ISSN 1476-8062

Matthews, Miranda. 2020. Discomfort Zones - Editorial. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 39(4), pp. 708-711. ISSN 1476-8062

Gilbert, Francis and Matthews, Miranda. 2020. Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice. BERA Blog,

Matthews, Miranda and Gilbert, Francis. 2020. Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice. British Educational Research Association,

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. Ethos of Ambiguity: Artist Teachers and the Transparency Exclusion Paradox. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38(4), pp. 853-866. ISSN 1476-8062

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. Art, Disobedience and Ethics: The Adventure of Pedagogy.Dennis Atkinson, 2018, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9783319873619. Studies in Art Education, 60(4), pp. 326-329. ISSN 0039-3541

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. Agency and social construction: practice of the self in art and design. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38(1), pp. 18-33. ISSN 1476-8062

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. [Book Review] Modernising School Governance: Corporate planning and expert handling, by Andrew Wilkins, London, Routledge, 2016, 188 pp., £36.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0815360674. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(3), pp. 436-441. ISSN 0159-6306

Matthews, Miranda. 2018. The Conflicted Other in Policy Making: Focusing on Art Education. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 16(1), ISSN 2051-0969

Matthews, Miranda. 2018. Counter Hegemony in Post-compulsory Art and Design and Gallery Education, through Sartre and Foucault. Pedagogy Culture and Society, 26(4), pp. 561-576. ISSN 1468-1366

Matthews, M.. 2008. How can we Create the Conditions for Students’ Freedom of Speech within Studies in Art? International Journal of Art and Design Education, 27(2), pp. 133-143. ISSN 1476-8070

Conference or Workshop Item

Matthews, Miranda. 2021. 'Expanding from the Small Screen: Arts Practice for Affective Digital Presence'. In: iJADE2021. Hybrid Spaces: Re-imagining, pedagogy, practice and research. Virtual Event, United Kingdom 26-28 March 2021.

Matthews, Miranda and Francis, Gilbert. 2020. 'Affective Digital Presence in Creative Practice'. In: Centre for Arts and Learning, Affective Digital Presence in Creative Practice. Online 3 November 2020.

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. 'Ethos of Ambiguity: Artist Teachers and the Transparency Exclusion Paradox'. In: iJade Conference 2019.Creating Spaces: Inclusivity, ethics and participation in art and design education. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 22-23 February 2019.

Matthews, Miranda. 2019. 'Arts pedagogy as introduction of ‘strangeness’: disruptive aesthetic discourse and the concern for ‘student satisfaction’'. In: Radical Practices Symposium. Ruskin School of Art, United Kingdom 22 January 2019.

Matthews, Miranda. 2018. 'Responding to Policy Changes since 2010: An Investigation of the Adjustments and Strategies of Art and Design Practitioners'. In: NSEAD Annual Conference: The Artist Teacher - Practice and Pedagogies. NSEAD Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford, United Kingdom.

Matthews, Miranda. 2017. 'A practice-based consideration of Foucauldian 'Art of the Self': Reflecting on self-definition in learning and diversity of cultural representation in the arts'. In: British Education Research Association Conference 2017. Sussex University, United Kingdom 5th September 2017.

Matthews, Miranda. 2017. 'The Conflicted Other in Policy Making: focusing on Art Education'. In: British Education Research Association Conference. Sussex University, United Kingdom 5th - 7th September 2017.

Project

Matthews, Miranda. 2022-2023 Ecologies in Practice: Participatory arts methods for engaging young people in climate research.

Matthews, Miranda. 2018-2021 A study of visual and discursive practices for the intersectional representation and wellbeing of undergraduates in British Universities.

Matthews, Miranda. From December 2020, ongoing Finding Comfort within Discomfort.

Matthews, Miranda. 2017. Culture shock in British universities: An investigation of visual and discursive practices for intersectional representation.

Matthews, Miranda. Responses to education policy since 2010: An investigation of the adjustments and strategies of art and design practitioners.

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