I am currently a lecturer on the MA Art and Design in Education and MA Museums and Galleries in Education at UCL Institute of Education. I studied art at Manchester Metropolitan University and later Goldsmiths College, where I began research into the politics and aesthetics of liberal arts education. I am mid-way through a PhD that examines fine art education and the legacies of the welfare state within the neoliberal university. Since 2000 I have taught art and critical studies at further education colleges and universities alongside working as an artist educator at museums and galleries across London. More recently I have been on the editorial board of engage, the advisory board of Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and I have been involved in the re-activation of Schooling and Culture, a left wing radical education journal produced by and for teachers between 1978 and 1984.