Professor Jeff Adams
Emeritus Professor, Programme Leader Ed.D. and Co-Director RECAP
I am a Professor Emeritus of art in education in the Faculty of Education, and Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art & Design Education.
I am co-director of the centre for Research into Education, Creativity and the Arts through Practice (RECAP), and until recently leader of the Doctorate in Education (EdD) programme.
I am a Fellow of the National Society of Education in Art and Design, and a Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and I have researched and published widely on creative arts practices and theory in teaching, pedagogy, and learning.
Postgraduate:
- PGCE Art and Design education
- EdD module leader: Creative Practices in Education
- PhD thesis supervision
- EdD thesis supervision
My research is concerned with contemporary practices of creativity and the visual arts in education.
Journal Editorships:
Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education, 2010-2020; Editorial Board member since 2005).
Guest editor for special issue the Journal Of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 13.3 (with Claire Penketh): ‘The Biopolitics of Art Education’, Published by Liverpool University Press (2019)
Research projects:
Researcher and Consultant for the Cultural Education Research Initiative (CERI; Arts Council/Curious Minds funding), 2018-2019
Co-investigator, ‘Beyond Text’. Erasmus+ 2015 Key Action 2 (KA2), Strategic Partnerships Project, 2016-2019, in co-operation with ten European and Palestinian partner organisations.
Co-Investigator ‘The pedagogical turn to art as research: A comparative international study of art education’ with Concordia University Montreal (home institution); University of British Columbia, Vancouver; University of Lapland, Finland, and the University of Granada, Spain; Partnership Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, funded, 2015–2019.
Principal investigator, ‘Arts-Based Evaluation’, evaluating the impact of learning programmes for young people, Storyhouse Arts Centre, Chester, 2017-19.
Principal Investigator, British Academy Award ‘Creative Pedagogies in Palestinian (West Bank) and English (North West) schools: A Comparative Study’ in collaboration with Bethlehem University. 2012–2016.
Co-Investigator for Esmée Fairbairn funded ‘Investigation into State Guidance and Policy on Creativity’ in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Hope University, Edge Hill University and Cumbria University. 2010-2013.
Co-Investigator, ‘Impact of the Artist Teacher Scheme on Practice and Pedagogy’, with Goldsmiths College, funded by the National Society for Education in Art and Design. 2008 – 2009.
Principal Investigator, ‘Teaching, Learning and Communicating through Contemporary Art Practices’, Goldsmiths College in collaboration with Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, funded by NESTA, investigating new teaching methods using contemporary art with 15 schools in London and Liverpool. 2006-07
Principal Investigator, evaluation of the National Society for Education in Art and Design national ICT professional development programme, Goldsmiths College, funded by NSEAD, 2007.
Team member of the NESTA-funded ‘Future Something Project’ research group, evaluating technologists working with young people ‘at risk’, Goldsmiths College. 2005-2006.
Coordinator of the funded pilot study ‘Teaching and Learning through Contemporary Art,’ working with partner schools developing innovative teaching strategies with contemporary art, Goldsmiths College, funding from Tate Modern. 2003-04.
Books:
Adams, J. & Owens, A. (Eds.) (2020, forthcoming) Beyond Text: Education Research Through Creative Practices. Bristol: Intellect.
Sinner, A., Irwin, R. & Adams, J. (Eds.) (2019) International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education: Provoking the Field. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN: 978-1783209910
Adams, J. & Owens, A. (2016) Creativity and Democracy in Education: Practices and Politics of Learning Through the Arts. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415741217
Adams, J., Cochrane, M. & Dunne, L. (Eds.) (2012). Applying Theory to Educational Research: An Introductory Approach with Case Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Print ISBN: 9780470972366
Adams, J., Worwood, K., Atkinson, D., Dash, P., Herne, S. & Page, T. (2008) Teaching Through Contemporary Art: A Report on Innovative Practices in the Classroom. London: Tate Publishing. ISBN 978 1 85437 812
Adams, J. (2008) Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism. Oxford: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-03911-362-0
Articles in refereed journals:
Adams, J., Al Yamani, H., Arya-Manesh, E, Mizel, O., Owens, A. & Qurie, D. (c.2019, under revision) ‘Creative Pedagogies in Teacher Education: West Bank, Palestine and North West England’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2019.1708706
Adams J. (2019) Desperate Journeys, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38.2, pp. 274-279. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12221
Adams, J. & Hyde, W. (2018) The Critically Designed Garden, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 37.3, pp. 348-352.
Adams, J., Bailey, R. and Walton, N. (2017) The UK National Arts Education Archive: Ideas and Imaginings, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 36.2, pp. 176-187.
Adams, J. (2015) ‘Touched by Turner’. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 34.1, pp. 2-9.
Adams, J. (2013) The Artful Dodger: Creative Resistance to Neo-Liberalism in Education, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Vol. 35, No.4, pp. 242-255.
Herne, S., Adams, J., Atkinson, D., Dash, P., Jessel, J. (2013) Technology, learning communities and young people: The Future Something Project, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 32.1, pp. 68-82.
Page, T., Adams, J. & Hyde, W. (2011). ‘Emerging Identities: The impact of the Artist Teacher MA on students’ pedagogical and artistic practices’. European Journal of Teacher Education 34.3, pp. 277-295.
Adams, J. (2010) ‘Risky choices: the dilemmas of introducing contemporary art practices into schools’. British Journal of Sociology of Education 31.6, pp. 683-701.
Adams, J. (2008) ‘The Pedagogy of the Image Text: Nakazawa, Sebald and Spiegelman Recount Social Traumas,’ Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 29.1, pp. 37-52.
Adams, J. (2007) ‘Artists becoming teachers: Expressions of identity transformation in a virtual forum’ International Journal of Art and Design Education 26.3, pp. 264-273.
Page, T., Herne, S., Charman, H., Dash, P., Atkinson, D., and Adams, J. (2006) ‘Art Now with the Living: A Dialogue with Teachers Investigating Contemporary Art Practices’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, 25(2), pp. 146-155.
Adams, J. (2005) ‘Room 13 and the Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners’, Studies in Art Education, 47:1, pp. 23-33.
Adams, J. (2003) ‘The Artist-Teacher Scheme as Postgraduate Professional Development in Higher Education’, International Journal of Art and Design Education 22.2, pp. 183-194.
Adams, J. (2001) ‘A Critical Study of Comics’, International Journal of Art and Design Education 20.2, pp. 133-143.
Adams, J., Hackett, A. and Okuda, K. (2000) ‘An Anglo-Japanese Study of Young People and Some Domestic Tasks Related to Food’, Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics 24.3, pp. 189-197.
Adams, J. (2000) ‘Annex B Anxiety? Finding ways out of the ICT labyrinth’, Journal of Design and Technology Education 5.3, pp. 248-253.
Adams, J. (2000) ‘Working Out Comics’, International Journal of Art and Design Education 19.3, pp. 304-312.
Adams, J. (1999) Of Mice and Manga, Journal of Art and Design Education (Directions), 18.1, pp. 69-76.
Chapters in books/edited works:
Adams, J. & Arya-Manesh, E. (2019, forthcoming) ‘Arts Based practices in Doctoral Education Research’. In Jeff Adams and Allan Owens (Eds.) Beyond Text: Education Research Through Creative Practices. Bristol: Intellect, pp. n–n.
Adams, J. & Arya-Manesh, E. (2019) ‘Transformative Interventions: Creative Practices in an Education Doctorate Programme’. In Sinner, A., Irwin, R. & Adams, J. (Eds.) Provoking the Field: International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 48-58.
Adams, J. (2012). ‘Art Practice as Education Research’, in Adams, J., Cochrane, M., and Dunne, L. (Eds.) (2012). Applying Theory to Educational Research: An Introductory Approach with Case Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 203-217.
Adams, J. (2011). ‘Room 13 and The Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners’. In Sefton Green, J, Thomson, P, Jones, K, Bresler, L, eds., 2011. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning. London: Routledge. pp. 214-222.
Adams, J., Ashley, M., & Shirley, I. (2011) ‘The Arts Outdoors’. In Waite, S. (Ed.) Children Learning Outside the Classroom: From Birth to Eleven. London: Sage, pp. 119-132.
Page, T., Herne, S., Paul Dash, Charman, H., Atkinson, D. Adams, J. (2009) 'Teaching Now with the Living: A Dialogue with Teachers Investigating Contemporary Art Practices'. In Herne, S., Cox, S. and Watts, R. Readings in Primary Art Education Bristol: Intellect, pp. 219 - 230.
Adams, J. (2006). ‘Troubled Places: Domestic Space in Graphic Novels’ in Croft, J. & Smyth, G. (Eds.), Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 161-174.
Jackson, T. (Ed.), Adams, J., Meecham, P. and Orbach, C. (1998) Working with Modern British Art: Tate Collection at Tate Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University/Tate Publications.
Journal editorials:
Adams, J. (2019) Editorial: Visual Art-Based Education Research, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 38, No.3, pp. 558-561. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12253
Penketh, C. and Adams, J. (Guest eds) (2019) Introduction, ‘The Biopolitics of Art Education’, Journal Of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 13.3, pp. n
Adams, J. (2019) Art and Empowerment (Editorial), International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 38, No.1, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12217
___ (2018) Art and Design as Agent of Change (Editorial), International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 37, No.4, pp. 558–559.
Adams J. & Atherton F. (2018) Young children and art education (special issue), International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 37, No.1, pp. 4–5.
Adams J. (2017) Drawing, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 242-243.
––– (2016) Sustainability in Arts Education, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 294-295.
––– (2016) Creativity in Teaching, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 180–182.
––– (2016) The Question of Cost is Irrelevant, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 4-7. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12103
––– (2015) ‘Collaboration in Arts Education’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 280-281. DOI: 10.1111/jade.12093
––– (2014) ‘Art for Life: Race, Gender, Disability, Class – Critical Discourses around Participation in Arts Education’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 288-290.
––– (2014) Finding Time to Make Mistakes, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 2-5.
––– (2013) ‘Creativity and Democracy’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 272-274.
Adams, J., Hyde, W., Murray, B. (2013) Design education: International perspectives and debates, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 142-145.
Adams, J. (2013) The new philistinism: the English Baccalaureate, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Adams, J. and Hiett, S. (2012) The Centrality of Art, Design and the Performing Arts to Education. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 31.3, pp. 218-220
Adams, J. (2012) Going beyond what we are. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 31.1, pp. 2-4.
––– (2011) The Degradation of the Arts in Education. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 30.2: pp.156–160.
Adams, J. and Swift, J. (2011). The Ebb and Flow of Art and Design Education: A Dialogue with John Swift to Commemorate Thirty Years of iJADE. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 30.1: pp. 2–6.
––– (2010). Editorial: The Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art 2010. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 29.3: pp.224–227.
––– (2010). Editorial: Afro Modern and Art Education. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 29.2.
––– (2010). Editorial: Introduction to the new editors; farewell to the Goldsmiths team. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 29.1, pp. 2-7.
Research reports:
Adams, J., Arya-Manesh, E., Owens, A., Poole, S. (2018) Evaluation of the Young Leaders Programme at Storyhouse, Chester.
Adams, J., Hyde, W., Page, T. (2009) The emergent artist-teacher: the impact of transformative practices. Corsham: NSEAD (unpublished).
Jessel, J., Adams. J., Atkinson, D, Dash, P, Herne, S., Robinson, R. (2007) The Future Something Project: Final Report with Recommendations, UK, Artswork/Goldsmiths University of London (published)
Adams, J., Atkinson, D., Dash, P., Charman, H., Herne, S., Page, T. (2005) Teaching, Learning and Communicating through Contemporary Art Practices, London, Tate Publications, Research Report Series (published).
Published book reviews:
Adams, J. (2018) Review of Dennis Atkinson’s Art, disobedience and ethics, the adventure of pedagogy. In AD, Issue 42, September 2018, pp. 28-29.
––– (2010) ‘Research in Art and Design Education: Issues and Exemplars’. Book review of Research in Art and Design Education. ed. Hickman. R. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 29.2: 213–214.
––– (2008) ‘Art Rules’, book review of Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts by Michael Grenfell and Cheryl Hardy in International Journal of Art and Design Education 27(2), pp. 212-213.
––– (2006) ‘Histories of Art and Design Education’, book review of ‘Histories of Art and Design Education: Collected Essays,’ in International Journal of Art and Design Education 25(2), pp. 241-242.
PhD History of Art, University of Liverpool, 2003
MA History of Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, 1992
PGCE Art and Design, Leeds Polytechnic, 1981
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne,1978