Dr Francis Gilbert

Francis approaches Creative and Life Writing from an educational perspective to understand how it is taught.

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer in Education, Head of the MA in Creative Writing and Education & course leader for PGCE English

Department

Educational Studies

Email

f.gilbert (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

Academic qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Literature (Sussex University, 1989)
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in English and Drama (Cambridge University, 1991)
Masters (MA) in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, 1992)
Diploma in Journalism (London College of Printing, 1998)
Post-graduate Certificate in Teaching for Higher Education (PG Cert) (Goldsmiths College, 2012)
PhD in Creative Writing and Education (Goldsmiths, June 2015)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy SFHEA (2019)

Teaching

Francis is the Head of the MA in Creative Writing and Education and course leader for PGCE English. He teaches on both programmes, including:

Modules on the MA in Creative Writing and Education, including Research into Creative Writing Practices and Creative Writing Pedagogies & Identities (2017 to present)
University-based sessions on the Secondary PGCE, including ones on the teaching of English and Professional Studies (2015 to present)

Professional projects

Francis has organised a number of conferences at Goldsmiths, including ones on Reading for Pleasure and Teaching Creative Writing. He runs a project with the Widening Participation Team which encourages young people in local schools, hospitals and charities to write creatively, leading to their work being published in an anthology at the end of the academic year. He has made numerous and ongoing appearances on television as an educational commentator, including BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, Channel 4 Dispatches, Sky News, ITV News, and Channel 4 News. He has also been featured in radio programmes including Radio 4鈥檚 Today programme, Woman鈥檚 Hour, and Review, among others.

Featured work

How Teaching to the Test Depresses Results, OCR (Oxford and Cambridge exam board) conference, Cambridge, March 2019.

. 2019. . London: Blue Door Press. ISBN 9781916475403

. 2018. . London: FGI Publishing. ISBN 978-1974255863

Publications and research outputs

Book

. 2019. . London: Blue Door Press. ISBN 9781916475403

. 2018. . London: FGI Publishing. ISBN 978-1974255863

. 2017. . London: Blue Door Press. ISBN 978-1539626183

Edited Book

; Januchowski-Hartley, Stephanie and , eds. 2024. . London: Centre for Language, Culture and Learning. 樱桃视频. ISBN 9781913694098

Friedland, Deborah; Troiano, Gabriel and , eds. 2022. . London: Gold Publishing (Centre for Languages, Culture and Learning). ISBN 9781913694074

, ed. 2022. . London: Gold Publishing (Centre for Languages, Culture and Learning). ISBN 9781913694081

Edited Journal

, ed. 2020. , , 6. 2058-5535

Book Section

and . 2021. . In: Andrew Green, ed. The New Newbolt Report: One Hundred Years of Teaching English in England. Oxford: Routledge. ISBN 9781003141891

. 2020. . In: Emma Branking; Francis Gilbert and Carinya Sharples, eds. Inspire: Exciting Ways of Teaching Creative Writing. Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, pp. 107-125. ISBN 9781913694043

Article

Tom, Dobson and . 2024. . New Writing, ISSN 1479-0726

. 2024. Educational Studies Blog,

. 2024. . Educational Studies blog,

. 2023. . British Journal of Educational Studies, ISSN 0007-1005

; ; and . 2023. . Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 31(5), pp. 1059-1077. ISSN 1468-1366

. 2023. . Changing English, 30(4), pp. 425-427. ISSN 1358-684X

. 2022. Educational Studies Blog,

. 2022. . Writing in Education, 86(Spring), pp. 57-59. ISSN 1361-8539

. 2022. Centre for Language, Culture and Learning Blog,

. 2022. . Teaching English, 28(Spring), p. 86. ISSN 2051-7971

. 2022. Writing in Practice, 7, pp. 120-132. ISSN 2058-5535

. 2022. . New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 19(2), pp. 153-182. ISSN 1479-0726

. 2022. . Changing English, 29(3), pp. 232-250. ISSN 1358-684X

; Daly, Grainne and Riley, Peggy. 2021. . Writing in Education, 84, ISSN 1361-8539

and . 2021. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 14(2), 29. ISSN 1753-5190

. 2021. . Writing in Education, 83, pp. 12-19. ISSN 1361-8539

. 2021. . Writing in Education, 83, pp. 89-91. ISSN 1361-8539

and . 2021. . New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 18(3), pp. 253-271. ISSN 1479-0726

. 2021. . Changing English, 28(2), pp. 148-168. ISSN 1358-684X

. 2020. . Writing in Education, 81, pp. 31-40. ISSN 1361-8539

and . 2020. . BERA Blog,

and . 2020. . British Educational Research Association,

. 2020. Blue Door Press Blog,

. 2020. . Teaching English, 22, pp. 49-52. ISSN 2051-7971

and . 2019. . English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 18(1), pp. 85-99. ISSN 1175-8708

. 2019. . Writing in Education(77), ISSN 1361-8539

. 2019. . Teaching English(19), pp. 33-36. ISSN 2051-7971

. 2018. . Changing English, 25(2), pp. 146-162. ISSN 1469-3585

. 2018. . Writing in Practice, 4, ISSN 2058-5535

. 2018. . Teaching English, 16, pp. 54-56. ISSN 2051-7971

. 2017. The Times, ISSN 0140-0460

. 2017. . Teaching English,

. 2017. . Writing in Education, 2017(73),

. 2016. . Writing in Education, 70(2016), ISSN 1361-8539

. 2016. . The Guardian, ISSN 0261-3077

. 2016. . Changing English, 23(3), pp. 257-268. ISSN 1358-684X

. 2016. . Teaching English,

. 2016. . GLITS-E, 2015/6(5),

. 2015. Politico EU,

. 2014. Glits-e: a Journal of Criticism, 4,

. 2012. Glits-e: a Journal of Criticism, 2,

. 2012. . English in Education, 46(2), pp. 198-211. ISSN 0425-0494

Conference or Workshop Item

. 2024. ''. In: . The English Association, United Kingdom 7 March 2024.

. 2022. ''. In: Creative Power Conference. 樱桃视频, United Kingdom 9 December 2022.

; Leena, Dhingra and Steve, Roberts. 2020. ''. In: Decolonising Creative Writing. United Kingdom 11 December 2020.

Audio

. 2016. .

Film/Video

. 2024. .

Project

. September 2022 - July 2024 .

. 2022. .

Report

. 2023. . Discussion Paper. UK Parliament, London.

Thesis

. 2015. . Doctoral thesis, 樱桃视频

Research Interests

Creative and Life Writing; Educational Studies

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