Professor Paul Haywood

Senior Lecturer, Advisor to the VC, Chair in Creative Community Engagement.

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• E: p.haywood@salford.ac.uk
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My primary role is advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Salford with responsibility for designing and developing inclusive flexible education for adult learners. His current priorities include: flexible routes into advanced learning for non-standard entrants, the design of flexible engagement and delivery models, developing new interactions with open educational resources, developing employer sponsored learning partnerships.

As a practitioner I have diverse interests. I mostly collaborate with other artists, designers, educators and community activists (professionals and volunteers). I have continuing interests as a practitioner working with socially interactive arts and creative enterprise collaborations. In recent years I have developed a range of approaches to the use of art processes to encourage pedagogic engagement and this has led to my current project portfolio in the VCs Offices exploring flexible educational partnerships and community learning platforms.

Following over 20 years of collaborations and partnerships with artists working on social intervention projects, regeneration initiatives and urban renewal programmes, my current obsessions are focussed on the arts as a stimulus for collective enterprise and citizen led creative and social innovations. My work is designed to cut across discipline fields and I share research interests and practice with colleagues in areas of social science, urban ecology, the built environment, communication media and technology innovation.

I have worked on a range of outputs from architectural commissions for integrated public art schemes to exploratory research with methods of environmental assessment and aesthetic profiling. I continue to prioritise painting and photography as my preferred media for practice.

My teaching has covered most areas of the Fine Art curriculum and I continue to offer support to students on the Undergraduate Visual Arts course and to postgraduate students. I supervise PhD students researching as practitioners: Jo Clements is working with fragmented film narratives as a means of creating dynamic interpretation materials and mass interaction. Kerry Morrison is working with models of arts led enquiry feeding into urban ecologies and planning for brownfield sites.

I am a practitioner working in the rapidly changing field of social arts and social sculpture. I have a painting practice and a history of working with sited installations and collaborative performance. I have taught across painting, sculpture, lens based media, performance, drawing and installation. I have a specific interest in creative pedagogy and community engagement and have taught on the Masters of Creative Education and the Masters of Contemporary Fine Art for a number of years.

I am currently the Principe Investigator on a three year AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship grant, ‘Supporting arts and enterprise skills in communities through engagement with the local area’ Reference: AH/G017115/1. This is an ongoing programme with external partners that seeks to model enterprise activism through arts led interventions dealing with specific social needs or conditions. The project is focussed on three initiatives that directly confront issues of inclusion and cohesion within specific neighbourhoods.

I am Principle Investigator on an AHRC Connected Communities award, with Sarie Slee from the School of Music Media and Performance; this is concerned with community heritage and empowering individuals, networks and neighbourhoods in citizen led regeneration.

I am currently working with Dr Beth Perry in SURF as co-investigator on one further AHRC Connected Communities award looking at the role of cultural intermediaries in urban ecologies; the PI is Dr Phil Jones from Birmingham University. I am joint project lead, with Dr Richard MacDonald from Goldsmith’s College, on the ‘Tower Twinning’ initiative, a core project for the RCUK funded FIRM programme (the Framework for Innovation and Research at MediaCityUK) that looks at technology enabled citizen led reverse innovation affecting neighbourhood networks.

• Master of Fine Arts, Reading University, July 1986.
• Art Teachers Certificate, Goldsmiths’ College, July 1984.
• BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1^st Class, Trent Polytechnic, July 1983.
• Joint Chair (with Professor Helen Baker, Northumbria University) of the National Association of Fine Art Educators (NAFAE).

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Feb 2011: ‘Supporting Arts and Enterprise Skills through Creative Engagement with the Local Area.’ International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol 5, co-author; Sam Ingleson.

May 2008: ‘REdGENERATION: Social Art; Social Action’: Refereed Journal Paper, International Journal of the Arts in Society: Volume 2; Co-author; Sam Ingleson.

Feb 2007: Art and Public Liaison: Salford Reds’; Refereed Journal Paper, International Journal of the Arts in Society: Volume 1, Issue 5. Co-authors; Dr Jo Heeley and Maxine Kennedy.