Jason Mitchell

Jul 4, 2023

Jason Mitchell

  • MAP Role: PhD Student
  • Institution: University of Lincoln
  • Location: U.K. University of Lincoln

Jason has just started the second year of his PhD journey. The PhD is investigating the use of clowning to develop resilience skills, an idea that came to life whilst he was learning to be an idiot in various clown workshops. Having spent many years as a professional actor, he then decided to play the part of a further education lecturer for 13 years, with various cameo roles doing his PGCE and then an MA. Jason is very excited to spend some time playing a few games and seeing what happens when we forget to be sensible for a couple of hours.

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Anna Smirnova

Jul 4, 2023

Anna Smirnova

  • MAP Role: PhD Student
  • Institution: University of Lincoln
  • Location: U.K. University of Lincoln

Anna has joined the project ‘Mobile Arts for Peace’(MAP) in 2021 and started her PhD journey at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Lincoln. Her PhD study aims to investigate what, how and why arts-based research and interventions contribute to the design, delivery and evaluation of peacebuilding curricula for/with young people in diverse social, political and cultural contexts. A practice-as-research element of the PhD is research support and assistance to the Kyrgyzstan team of MAP to analyse their practical activities in adapting cultural forms and artistic approaches for peacebuilding and developing recommendations about effective and sustainable ways of engaging youth in conflict resolution and decision-making.

Over 20 years Anna worked at the Department of Social Work of St. Petersburg State University (Russia) as a researcher and lecturer. She is a Candidate of Science in Sociology. In 2018 Anna finished a year-long educational programme in art-therapy and became a certified art-therapist. Since then, she has been using arts-based methods in teaching social work and investigating the problem of developing identity and agency in young people

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Vina Puspita

Vina Puspita

Jul 3, 2023

Vina Puspita

  • MAP Role: Research Project Officer & PhD Student
  • Institution: University of Lincoln
  • Location: U.K. University of Lincoln
  • Twitter: @vinapuspita 
  • Web profile: www.vinapuspita.com

Vina Puspita is a visual artist, researcher, and educator whose practice centres around participatory arts in community settings. Since 2009, she has been working closely with a wide range of groups, particularly with children and culturally diverse communities, to explore the possibilities of learning through creativity. She is a design consultant for UNICEF Indonesia, and is affiliated with Sahabat Anak Foundation, Japan Foundation (HANDs! Project), Jogja Disability Arts (Yogyakarta)

 

Vina holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Yogyakarta, and a master’s degree in Arts and Learning from the Goldsmiths University of London. In 2021, she started her PhD in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. She is one of the recipients of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) PhD studentship in connection to the international project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nepal (2020-2024). Taking a case study of the MAP strand in Indonesia, her study explores the use of mural art for peacebuilding with young people at risk of violence in Jakarta to promote just, peaceful, and inclusive societies. Her practice-based research seeks to engage children in conveying their voices through a democratic artistic process and defining meaningful children’s participation in peacebuilding.

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Dr Sarah Huxley

Dr Sarah Huxley

Mar 21, 2023

Dr Sarah Huxley

Professional biography

Sarah has 20 years experience as a social development specialist in International Development focused on youth and children. This has involved working in a spectrum of thematic areas, including: youth engagement, non formal education, governance and accountability, safeguarding, gender/inclusion, youth livelihoods, post conflict transitions, and play work/therapy. She has been privileged to work in a range of places, with a variety of people – from trafficked children in Kathmandu care homes to policy maker panels at the OECD in Paris.

She is driven by creating and facilitating opportunities for young people to have a meaningful role in shaping their own futures, and understands that as an adult researcher and co-learner, there can be many challenges and contradictions in this.

Her work around the world  has always encountered highly contested narratives and approaches relating to ‘creativity’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘participation’. She now wants to focus specifically on ‘fun’ – an elusive social construct – to assess its meaning in different cultural contexts, and to examine if/how ‘fun’ contributes to learning processes directed towards self and community social change. 

Research interests

Her research interests are interdisciplinary and will draw predominantly upon education, social anthropology and human geography. She is particularly interested to explore how fun is used in specific out of school learning contexts.

Sarah is working closely with Coaches Across Continents (CAC), an NGO whose aim is to facilitate self directed learning through ‘fun’ in non-competitive soccer-related games.  This is an assumption embedded in a lot of out of school ‘life skills’ programmes, that fun (or its big brother ‘play’) are vital, but why and how has not been fully examined or explained. Sarah believes that ‘fun’ remains undervalued and under-utilised in educational practices. She wants to explore if there is evidence as to why fun matters, and whether it should be acknowledged and made an integral part of  multi-generational learning processes.

Her methodology draws from interpretivist ethnographic foundations, focusing on creative and engaged practices. She is particularly interested to situate ‘fun’ through embodied practice, and in so doing explore how the wider senses can be used as a research tool.

Her challenge will be to embody ‘fun’ in the research process itself. Wish her luck!

Impact and engagement

A selection of blogs and presentations:

Huxley, S (2022). Listen Up! Reflections on being a research participant as part of an online ethnography. Podcast posted on the OU Graduate School’s website 11 March 2022. Accessible from: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/listen-up-reflections-on-being-aresearch/id1541300446?i=1000553692354

Huxley, S (2021). More than ‘out there’: re-figuring presence during online video conferencing learning experiences. Blog posted on the OU Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) website 22 November 2021. Accessed from: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/?p=1268  

Dowdeswell, E. & Huxley, S. (2021). Moments of reconnection with/in digital presentation: an exploration of found poetry. Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC), June 14-15th  2021, University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Original blog posted on the OU Rumpus site, 6 April 2021 accessible here: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rumpus/index.php/2021/04/06/chop-chop-cut-cut-moments-of-reconnection-with-in-digital-presentation/

Huxley, S. (2020). One (dis)placed ethnographer’s movements during the pandemic: Is the on-line world a lesser ethnographic world? Blog posted on Ethnography.com 14 December 2020. Accessed from: http://www.ethnography.com/2020/12/one-dis-placed-ethnographers-movements-during-the-pandemic-is-the-on-line-world-a-lesser-ethnographic-world/

Huxley, S. (2020) Shifting to Online ethnography: using a river flow diagram to explain the experience. Presentation and contributions at the online workshop 19 November 2020 on Online ethnography. This was part of the National Centre for Research Methods Changing Research Practices: Undertaking social research in the context of Covid-19 project. See:  http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/4397/1/NCRM%20Changing%20Research%20Practices_MAIN%20REPORT.pdf

Huxley, S. (2020). In celebration of sensory methods and movement. Blog posted on the OU Rumpus website 11 August 2020. Accessed from: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/rumpus/index.php/2020/08/11/in-celebration-of-sensory-methods-and-movement/

Huxley, S. (2020). Fun: Is it fundamental to ‘education outside the classroom’? Blog posted on Coaches Across Continents website 7 February 2020. Accessed from: https://coachesacrosscontinents.org/tag/sarah-huxley/

 

External collaborations

Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Development.

Member of the OU Future Societal Challenges Group.

Member of RUMPUS.

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Camilo Soler Caicedo

Camilo Soler Caicedo

Apr 13, 2022

Dr. Camilo Sol Inti Soler Caicedo

 

Camilo Soler Caicedo is an Anthropologist and Dancer with a vast amount of experience working in conflict/post-conflict contexts using arts-based research methods.

He has worked in several collaborative research projects with large organisations such as NERC/Loughborough University, the Goethe Institute, King’s College London, Colombia’s Ministry of the Interior (via the National Indigenous Organisation), and with communities as diverse as artists in West Africa and Latin America, culturally threatened indigenous groups in the Amazon, gang members in marginal urban areas, and dancers of popular Latin dance.

 

 

Akmatalieva Shakhsanam

Akmatalieva Shakhsanam

Apr 6, 2021

Akmatalieva Shakhsanam

 

  • MAP Role: MAP Project Coordinator for the Jalal-Abad region of the FNI
  • Institution: Foundation for Tolerance International
  • Location: Kyrgyzstan

Akmatalieva Shаkhsanam is a coordinator of MAP project in Jalal-Abad region of the FNI. She has 5 year experience in the sphere of peacebuilding. Shokhsanam came to FTI as a participant one of the successful youth projects “Youth Ambassadors and Interethnic Interaction”. She implemented several initiatives aimed at building capacity of youth and improving girls’ access to education in the villages. Then she became a volunteer in FTI and later was engaged as an assistant of the innovative project “Cameras in the hands of children” implemented in partnership with GPPAC. She participated in various research and advocacy campaigns.

Cholpon Kylzhyrova

Cholpon Kylzhyrova

Apr 6, 2021

Cholpon Kylzhyrova

 

  • MAP Role: MAP Coordinator Bishkek office
  • Institution: Foundation for Tolerance International
  • Location: Kyrgyzstan

Cholpon Kylzhyrova is a coordinator of the MAP project in the Bishkek office of the FTI. She has experience in the field of peacebuilding, has successfully implemented projects aimed at youth development. She was trained in the forum theater methodology and implemented similar projects with young people, representatives of educational institutions, local authorities, community leaders and decision-makers

Nurgul Sultanova

Nurgul Sultanova

Mar 17, 2021

Nurgul Sultanova

 

  • MAP Role: MAP Project Coordinator for the Osh branch of Foundation for Tolerance International (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Institution: Foundation for Tolerance International
  • Location: Kyrgyzstan

Nurgul Sultanova is an FTI staff member. She has been engaged with many programs and projects aimed at strengthening the role of youth in peacebuilding, leadership capacity development, inclusion of youth in decision-making processes and conducting advocacy campaigns. Nurgul has about 10 years of practical work experience in this sphere. She provides support to young people to conduct research among their peers, share experiences and bring the voice of youth to policy makers through using the art.

Rakhmankulov Bakhram

Rakhmankulov Bakhram

Mar 17, 2021

Rakhmankulov Bakhram

 

  • MAP Role: MAP Project Coordinator for the Batken branch of Foundation for Tolerance International (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Institution: Foundation for Tolerance International
  • Location: Kyrgyzstan

 Rakhmankulov Bakhram has over 8 years of experience in peacebuilding, transformation and conflict prevention, working with youth issues, developing, monitoring and evaluating projects and programs. In the course of his professional activity, for more than 4 years, he facilitated the development and implementation of youth initiatives aimed at expanding cooperation, active civic participation and involvement of youth in the decision-making process in the communities of Batken region, Kyrgyzstan. Since 2014, he has been a volunteer for the international organization Generations for Peace. He is a co-founder of the Public Association “Peace Initiatives”, which has been actively working on the problems of youth and peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan since 2010.

Family for Every Child

Family for Every Child

Feb 10, 2021

Family for Every Child

 

Family for Every Child is a global alliance, of 36 leading local civil society organisations working with vulnerable children in 33 countries MAP is partnered with Family for Every Child, a global alliance of leading local civil society organisations working with vulnerable children, to share resources, learning and expertise through outputs and webinars across the 36 member organisations in 33 countries

Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

Jan 27, 2021

Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

 

Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia is an institute of higher learning in Jakarta, Indonesia. Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia is working with MAP to influence national curricula and youth policy through Muatan local; an education unit informed by local and indigenous subjects, such as through the subject of Pancasila (state-informed political philosophy) and citizenship education. The development of the MAP curriculum through baseline activities will inform national curricula through the provision of additional materials, training and expertise related to the use of arts-based methods for peacebuilding.

Lembaga Perlindungan Anak/ Child Protection Agency Indonesia

Lembaga Perlindungan Anak/ Child Protection Agency Indonesia

Jan 27, 2021

Lembaga Perlindungan
Anak/ Child Protection Agency Indonesia

 

 

Child Protection Agency Indonesia (LPAI) is an organization for child protection activists which is registered with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights in Indonesia. Its management was formalized by a Decree of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Active since 1997, LPAI champions children’s rights in Indonesia through advocacy, publications, and policy development. LPAI also has local partners spread across provinces, districts and cities throughout Indonesia. MAP will work with LPAI to equip street-connected children with tools to explore and communicate issues of importance in
their lives to inform Indonesia’s policy sphere

Yayasan Anak Budaya Indonesia (YABI)/Indonesian Children’s Foundation

Yayasan Anak Budaya Indonesia (YABI)/Indonesian Children’s Foundation

Jan 27, 2021

Yayasan Anak Budaya Indonesia (YABI)/Indonesian Children’s Foundation

 

 

  • MAP Role: MAP Partner
  • Location: Indonesia

Yayasan Anak Budaya Indonesia was founded in 2001 to provide education and financial assistance for underprivileged children. MAP will work with Yayasan Anak Bangsa Indonesia to deliver activities with children and youth and increase arts-based peacebuilding efforts.

Professor Ananda Breed

Professor Ananda Breed

Jan 17, 2021

Professor Ananda Breed

Professor Ananda Breed is author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (Seagull Books, 2014), co-editor of Performance and Civic Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume One – Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, and Australia and New Zealand (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, United Kingdom and Arab World (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia (Palgrave, 2020) in addition to several publications that address transitional systems of governance and the arts. 

She has worked as a consultant for IREX and UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan on issues concerning conflict prevention and conducted applied arts workshops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Palestine, Rwanda and Turkey. Breed was founder of the Centre for Performing Arts Development (CPAD) at the University of East London and former research fellow at the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures at Freie University 2013-2014). 

She is currently Prinicipal Investigator of Arts and Humanities (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (2020-2024) and former Co-Investigator of AHRC GCRF project Changing the Story (2018-2022) and former Principal Investigator of UKRI GCRF Newton Fund project MAP at Home: online psychosocial support through the arts in Rwanda (2020-2022). She loves nature and likes running, walking, dancing and playing with others. 

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Dr. Helena-Ulrike Marambio

Dr. Helena-Ulrike Marambio

Dec 1, 2020

Dr. Helena-Ulrike Marambio

 

  • Institution: University of Lincoln
  • MAP role: Post-doctoral Research Associate
  • Location: U.K.
  • Twitter: @HelenaMarambio
  • ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helena_Ulrike_Marambio

Helena joined MAP as a Post Doctoral Research Associate after passing her viva at the Human Rights Centre/ School of Law of the University of Essex (UK). Her socio-legal research focussed on the legal empowerment of Tamil women with physical disabilities in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Helena is interested in research and activism to support marginalized groups in society. Over the past years, she has worked as a research assistant at the Max-Planck Institute, and different NGOs in Chile and the UK. In 2014, she co-founded the non-profit association VisAbility which uses dance and rights education as a combined tool to empower people with disabilities in rural areas in Sri Lanka. Between 2017 and 2018, VisAbility acted as a partner on an AHRC-funded project exploring the potential of dance as a vehicle for (legal) empowerment. Helena holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice (University of York, UK) and a Magister in Political Science (University of Cologne, Germany).

Dr Chaste Uwihoreye

Dr Chaste Uwihoreye

Nov 30, 2020

Dr Chaste Uwihoreye

  • MAP Role: MAP at Home Co-Investigator
  • Institution: Uyisenga ni Imanzi
  • Position: Country Director
  • Location: Rwanda
  • Website: https://uyisenganmanzi.org.rw/

Chaste UWIHOREYE is a PhD holder in Psychotherapy, and 16-years of experience working with children and young people. Have experience with psychological and health care of vulnerable people affected with violence and HIV/AIDS, as well as working with street children and I have tremendous skills with professionals, in program development, planning, management and evaluation; proposal development, training, team building, organization representation at High Lever as Country Director. Result-oriented and able to deliver on assigned tasks within the time frame. 

Dr Fereshte Goshtasbpour

Dr Fereshte Goshtasbpour

Oct 25, 2020

Dr Fereshte Goshtasbpour

 

  • MAP Role: Co-Investigator (maternity cover)
  • Institution: Open University (OU)
  • Position: Lecturer, Institute of Educational Technology
  • Location: U.K.
  • Twitter: @GFereshte
  • Website: https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/fereshte.goshtasbpour

Dr Fereshte Goshtasbpour is a Lecturer at the Institute of Educational Technology in the Open University UK.

Her research examines online learning and teaching at large scale as well as technology-supported communications in educational and professional contexts. Her current research focuses on using digital education for capacity building to address global challenges such as tackling anti-microbial resistance, widening access to quality education for marginalised learners and creating a peace building curriculum

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Anara Eginalieva

Anara Eginalieva

Mar 15, 2020

Anara Eginalieva

  • MAP Role: MAP Manager 
  • Institution: Bishkek Office for Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI)
  • Position: Director
  • Location: Kyrgyzstan

Director of the Bishkek Office of the Foundation for International Tolerance, Anara has experience in peace-building and conflict prevention projects since 2000. Has experience as a manager, analyst, trainer, expert in conflict analysis and development of action plans. He has experience in projects aimed at increasing the potential of young people in the field of peace-building.

Dr Koula Charitonos (Open University)

Dr Koula Charitonos (Open University)

Sep 15, 2019

Dr Koula Charitonos (Open University)

Dr Koula Charitonos is a Senior Lecturer in Learning + Technology at the Open University UK. Koula is concerned with understanding aspects of human learning supported by technology in ways that contribute to projects of educational justice. To this end, her work focuses on the study of knowledge work in professional settings and on participatory methods in the design and development of technology, as well as on pedagogical practices across formal and informal settings. Koula maintains a strong interest in education in crisis contexts, particularly in the provision of digital education in conflict and protracted crises and the role of education in promoting peace. Koula’s work foregrounds that educational spaces and practices can be transformative and have capacity to help create more just futures. (https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/koula.charitonos

Related Projects:

  1. PhotoVoice as an educational tool for intercultural learning and peacebuilding between Forcefully Displaced Populations and Host community youth

http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/upmprojects/photovoice-as-an-educational-tool-for-intercultural-learning-and-peacebuilding-between-forcefully-displaced-populations-and-host-community-youth(92000aad-8db5-49bf-9180-eb9478cf97e3).html

  1. EDiCT project Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation

https://edict.weebly.com/

http://wels.open.ac.uk/research/centres/creet/research-themes/languages-and-applied-linguistics/completed-projects/edict

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