Maureen Gamble

Maureen Gamble teaches Fine Art and professional practice on Worcester’s BA Fine Art Practice and Art & Design courses. She has taught in higher education since 1996 and was appointed a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2006. Maureen is currently External Examiner at Coventry University for BA (Hons) Applied Arts. She is an active member of the Group for Learning & Teaching in Art & Design (GLAD).

Maureen’s research interests include the pedagogy of art and design practice and the archive as trope within contemporary art practice. From 2009 to 2010, she was artist-in-residence at Worcester Cathedral, which culminated in an exhibition of her work in January 2011. She has also recently presented her work in an exhibition of artists’ books, Library Book Project, held at the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England.

The outcomes of her learning and teaching research have contributed directly to two published reports: ‘Proactively supporting students with mental health difficulties’ Learning and Teaching projects supplement, ADLTSN, Winter 2002, and (Hudson C. & Jamieson J. (2006) Widening Participation in Higher Education Art & Design, part 4, pp17/18, CHEAD, July 2006). Further HEA-ADM Subject Centre-funded research, in collaboration with researchers at the University of the Arts, London - Learning, Creativity and the Passage of Mental (ill) Health: Student Case Studie - was completed in 2009.

Qualifications
1997- 1999 University of Worcester Post-graduate Certificate in HE
1992- 1995 Coventry University MA Fine Art Education
1982 - 1984 Wimbledon School of Art (UAL) CNAA Post-graduate Diploma Fine Art (Printmaking)
1978 - 1981 Brunel College of Technology Diploma in Graphic Design