Dr Laura Barritt

(she/her)

Research

Conferences

• Barritt, L., (2019) 'Rendering realities: a speculative approach to the life-world of the adolescent artists'. SLSA Conference: Experimental Engagements. Experimental Approaches to Pedagogy Through Art and Literature. Irvine, California.   Metatechnicity Research: Cardiff School of Art and Design: Cardiff Metropolitan University.
• Barritt, L., (2021) '(Re)Considering Pedagogy – Entangled ontology in a complex age: abstraction pedagogy and the critical pedagogical importance of art education for other discipline areas'. iJADE Conference: Hybrid Spaces: Re-imagining pedagogy, practice and research.  International Journal of Art and Design Education [Online]

Papers and publications

• Barritt, L (2022) 'Connections, Concepts and Cartographies: Re-imagining sustainable education systems through perceptive engagement with children'. EiTN. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26203/ddbw-hm31
• Barritt, L., Woodward, M., and Thompson, S (2021) '(Re)Considering Pedagogy – Entangled ontology in a complex age: abstraction pedagogy and the critical pedagogical importance of art education for other discipline areas'. iJADE. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12391 
• Barritt, L., Popovac, M., Woodward, M., & Thompson, S (2021) 'A shift in systems: (co-)conceptualising pedagogy in an era of continuous complexity'. The Buckingham Journal of Education. Pedagogy, volume 3. Buckingham University Press, Buckingham. Available from: http://www.ubplj.org/index.php/TBJE/article/view/1996

Biography

My experience of teaching and learning has developed (and continues to develop) from a practical background of teaching in schools and universities. I started working in Cardiff University in 2022 as a lecturer in education development on the Fellowships programmes. Prior to this role, I was Head of Secondary School Teacher Training at the University of Buckingham where I trained teachers across a range of postgradute programmes. I started working in HE from 2015 as a PGCE lecturer and alongside this role I also worked in secondary schools as an art teacher and Head of Faculty.

First and foremost, I am pedagogue who is interested in the symbiotic process of learning and teaching and how that develops understanding, thinking (and becoming) in learners. As a cross-disciplinary educator and researcher, I am interested in supporting learning experiences across disciplines.

In relation to research, I have a PhD in contemporary learning theory that considers the correspondence between person-environment relations on the onto-epistemic development in learners, and how this can be considered to support teachers when cultivating learning experiences. My research works engages with posthumanist theory, phenomenology and learning spaces.