NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Lynn Butler-Kisber is a Professor of Education at McGill University in Montreal, and the Director of the office of Leadership in Community and International Initiatives, and of the Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership Programs. She is the founding and current editor of The journal LEARNing Landscapes. Her research interests include qualitative and arts-based inquiry, leadership, literacy, and professional development, all grounded in socially just practices. Sue Challis is a video artist whose work has been shown in the UK and internationally. In 2007 she was nominated for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women for her film ‘Reading Agatha Christie’. She has BAs in Sociology and Fine Art, and MAs in Communication Management and Fine Art. For the past ten years she has worked as a participatory community artist, developing and delivering projects in London and the West Midlands. Sue is currently researching evaluation of the qualitative impact of creativity on participants in small and medium sized community projects in the West Midlands for Coventry University (Department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management) and the ESRC. She is also consultant evaluator to several creative projects, including three pilots of an evaluation strategy for Arts Connect West Midlands, funded by the Arts Council. Alexandra Cutcher is an award-winning academic in the School of Education at Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia. She believes in the power of the Arts to transform, educate, inspire and soothe. To this end, the provision of high quality Visual Arts education for students of all ages is a professional priority. Dr Cutcher’s research interests focus on what the Arts can be and do; educationally, expressively, as research method, as language, as catharsis, as reflective instrument and as documented form. These understandings inform Alexandra’s research agenda, her teaching and her spirited advocacy for Arts education. Robyn Ewing is Professor of Teacher Education and the Arts at the University of Sydney. She teaches in the areas of curriculum, English and drama, working with both preservice and postgraduate teachers. Robyn is passionate about the Arts and education and the role quality arts experiences and processes can and should play across the curriculum and in educational research. Susan Finley is Professor of Education at Washington State University Vancouver is the Founding Director of AHAS, a curriculum design based on the concepts of empowerment and democratic education and utilizes hands-on and arts-integrated learning approaches in all of its programs. The AHAS umbrella of programs began in 2002 with the AHAS Summer Program and the project to offer tutoring in shelters. Teachers in AHAS programs are guided by the educational theories 145 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS of critical pedagogy conceptualized in the works of Paulo Freire. Finley has been guest editor of several journals devoted to arts-based research, including Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She has also contributed to several research hand- books including the Sage Handbook of Arts in Education and the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Spencer J. Harrison, is an artist, a human rights activist, a storyteller, and an educator. He combines all aspects of this identity into what he calls “his studio practice.” He presently teaches in the Faculty of Art, in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. The focus of his courses are not the instruction of how to paint, but rather “why paint?” and “why are you the one doing that painting?” His education includes; a BFA from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; a Master's in Canadian Heritage and Development Studies from Trent University, Peterborough, On; and a Doctorate in Adult Education and Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. His PhD is noted as the first painted dissertation in Canada. Carl Leggo is a poet and professor at the University of British Columbia. His books include: Growing Up Perpendicular on the Side of a Hill; View from My Mother’s House; Come-By-Chance; Teaching to Wonder: Responding to Poetry in the Secondary Classroom; and Sailing in a Concrete Boat: A Teacher’s Journey. Maks Del Mar is Senior Lecturer in Law and Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) in the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. He is also Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple . He completed a BA in Philosophy and Literature with First Class Honours and a LLB with First Class Honours at the University of Queensland, Australia. He then served as an Associate to the Hon. Justice Margaret White at the Supreme Court of Queensland, before qualifying and practising as a solicitor. He has completed two doctorates: one in Law from the University of Edinburgh, and one in the Social Sciences from the University of Lausanne. He has a long-standing interest in the pedagogical potential of the arts in law schools, stemming from his involvement in the AHRC Beyond Text in Legal Education Network at the University of Edinburgh (2007-8). Together with Paul Maharg and Zenon Bankowski, he is the co-editor of The Arts and the Legal Academy (Ashgate, 2013). Elelwani Ramugondo is Associate Professor within the Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town. Regarded as a play-activist, Elelwani draws from research and everyday observations on children’s play and the arts to explain the politics of human occupation within the context of rapid social change, and to raise occupational consciousness. Her own research takes an intergenerational approach, and negates the adult-child binary often prevalent within the study of play and the arts. 146 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Maggie Burnette Stogner is an Associate Professor of film and media arts at American University’s School of Communication in Washington D.C. She is founder of Blue Bear Films, a global media design and production company of documentaries and immersive media. 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