FED Ambassador: Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She has published 25 books and over 120 articles which advance the theory and practice of pluralising and assessing creativities across education and industry sectors including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher/further education, through to creative and cultural industries. Current funded projects include ‘Choices, Chances and Transitions around Creative Further and Higher Education’ (funded by The Nuffield Trust). Some of her most recent books include: Eruptive Research: Changing Landscapes on Research in Teaching and Learning (Brill-i-Sense, 2025); Inclusion and Healing in Schools and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2023); and The Routledge Companion to Creativities (Routledge, 2023); Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education (Routledge, 2022) and Why Science and Arts Creativities Matter (Brill-i-Sense, 2020).
These and all other books and articles provide empirical evidence of why and how diverse creativities manifest uniquely across cultural practices, creative industries and educational sectors. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching (CCT), and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI). She is also Professor-in-Residence and Governor at the University of Cambridge Primary School and serves on the Board for the DaVinci Life Skills and Biophilia Education Institution (https://davincilifeskills.com), the Global Institute of Creative Thinking (GIoCT) and the Centre for Excellent Education focused on Creative Use of Technologies, Norway (https://createme.uia.no).
