Professor Mia Perry
- Professor of Arts and Literacies in Education (Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy)
telephone:
01413301801
email:
Mia.Perry@glasgow.ac.uk
St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0886-7093Research interests
Literacies, social arts and arts education, community and public pedagogies, environmental sustainability, decoloniality
My research addresses literacies, methodologies of research, and methodologies of engagement across disciplines, and geographies. I am particularly interested in the pedagogical affordances of making and witnessing arts and culture, the relationships (human and non-human) inherent in every literacy and learning engagement, and a perspective on those engagements that accounts for affect as well as representation. To this end I am deeply engaged in theories and methods of qualitative and post-qualitative research and in human-environment relations and socio-ecological sustainability.
I lead the MSc in Education for Sustainable Futures in Adult, Community and Youth Contexts and teach across the subject areas of Teaching and Learning Practices, Social Arts, and Research Methods. In addition, I teach in Initial Teacher Education in the area of family and community engagement. From a background in Theatre and Non-Governmental Organisations, my work spans internationally contexts with close collaborators in North America, South East Asia, the Carribbean, and Africa, as well as across the UK and Ireland.
Grants
Whose Crisis? The global COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of communities in Africa (2020 - 2021)
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: UKRI AHRC
Participatory Futures GCRF Research Challenge Cluster (2020 - 2021)
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: UKRI GCRF
Methodological Propositions for Global Challenges Research (2019 - 2020)
A Critical Resource For Ethical International Partnerships
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account
Culture And Bodies: An interdisciplinary approach to non-communicable disease prevention in Malawi and Tanzania (2018 - 2020)
Role: Co Investigator with Drs C Gray and C Bunn
Source: AHRC-MRC, UK, Global Public Health Partnership
Cultural practices and the arts in socio-ecological sustainability research (2017 - 2018)
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: Scottish Funding Council, GCRF
Partnership to ensure the sustainability of a public health palliative care project in Bangladesh through community theatre (2018 - 2020)
Role: Co Investigator with PI Dr S Zaman
Source: AHRC-MRC, Global Public Health Partnership
Building up trial research hubs in Uganda and Nigeria for Sustainable Futures in Africa (2017 - 2018)
Role: Co Investigator with Dr D Koehn
Source: Scottish Funding Council GCRF
Mitigating the implementation gap in environmental initiatives through community engagement and public pedagogies in Africa (2016 - 2018)
Role: Principle Investigator
Source: ESRC, UK, Strategic Network Fund
Building Connections: Community-Based Phytostabilisation/Remediation in Southern Africa (2016)
Source: ESRC, Impact Acceleration Account.
Low income kids falling through the digital divide: A crossnational study of social and cultural literacies (2016 - 2018)
Type: Insight Development Grant, Research Partnership with Dr. Diane Collier, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
Source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada
Intergenerational, cultural, and digital education (2015)
Role: Lead Researcher
Source: Multi-partner project between Royal Mail, Fantom Digital, and the ecl foundation, Royal Mail, Stamps and Collectibles Division
Whole system approach to education, professional development, and communities: The ecl foundation and Netherfield Primary and Pre-School (2014 – 2015)
Role: Sole Principle Investigator
Source: CSR fund, Smuffit Kappa
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation: A Partnered Research Institute (2012 – 2015)
Role: Team Member (Institute member, expertise resource, project collaborator)
Source: “Insight” Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada
The Public Pedagogies of Hip Hop (2012 – 2013)
Role: Sole Principle Investigator
Source: SSHRC Cohort Development Grant, Office of Research Services, University of Regina
Masks or Meaning?: A Survey of Existing Practices and Initiatives Relating to Arts Education in Regina and the Surrounding Districts. (2011-2012)
Role: Sole Principal Investigator
Source: Standard Research Fund, Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit
Catalysts for Change: Faculty Initiatives in Indigenous Education (2011-2012)
Role: Co-Investigator (with Drs. Blackbear and Cappello)
Source: Standard Research Fund, Saskatchewan Instructional Development and Research Unit
Theatre as a Place of Learning: The Forces and Affects of Devised Theatre Processes in Education (2008 – 2010)
Role: Sole Principle Investigator
Source: Doctoral Scholarship: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada
Supervision
I am happy to hear from potential students in education; literacies, social, participatory, and educational arts; post-qualitative research methodologies, sustainability, community engagement; and related fields.
Current doctoral projects
Sundas Mahar: Environmental literacies in plastic practices
Anthony Kadoma:Understanding stakeholder perceptions on wetland ecosystem services to support conservation and restoration activities
Nic Dickson: Exploring the relationships between arts-informed adult learning and the recovery journey of women who have experienced Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA).
Libby Nelson: Understanding Online and Offline Playground Culture and Lore in the Digital Age
David Gerow: Found in Translation: An approach to problems of representation and appropriation in writing other peoples
Sharifa Abdulla: Culture, Play and Health: A Theatre for Engagement Approach to Exploring Narratives of HIV and AIDS in Rural Malawi
Karen Nelson: Emotional and affective pedagogies in post-assessment paramedic education
Graduates:
Marian Taylor Brown: Examining Cultural Equity in the Arts (Student of the School for Global Inclusion & Social Development, at the University of Massachusetts Boston)
- Hsieh, Sih Ying
Exploring the Art-informed Approach for People Living with Dementia: Arts on Prescription in Taiwan - Mahar, Sundas
Environmental Literacies in Plastic Practices - Wu, Han
Exploring the Application and Assessment Practice Of Drama in Education in China
Teaching
Beyond School Walls: Working with families, communities, and public spaces (Initial Teacher Education: MEduc)
Teaching and Learning Practices in Adult, Community and Youth Contexts (MSc Educational Studies in Adult, Community and Youth Contexts)
Community-Based Research (BA Community Development)
Applied Theatre and Social Arts (BA Theatre Studies/ BA Community Development)
Schools, Families, and Communities (PGDE)
Applied Research Methods (BA Community Development, 4th yr.)
Power, Language, and Society (BA Community Development, 2nd yr.)
Local and Global Contexts in Community Development (BA Community Development, 1st yr.)
