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School for Cross-faculty Studies Global Sustainable Development

Dr Edward Loveman

Contact details

Email: edward dot loveman at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: R2.28 Ramphal Building

Office hours: 

2024/25 TBC.

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Teaching Fellow

About

Dr Edward Loveman is a visual artist and teaching fellow in Design Studies. With teaching experience across EYFS to Higher Education, they completed their doctoral studies at Bournemouth University in the Department of Sport & Event Management. Edward also holds an MRes in Sociology and BA (Hons) in Sport & Social Science from the University of Bath.

Teaching

Honours-level modules:

  • DI105: Visual Practice and Curiosity (Convenor)
  • DI207: Social Design (Contributor)
  • GD106: Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development (Convenor)

Postgraduate modules:

  • GD912: Popular Movements and Sustainable Change (Convenor)

Pedagogy

Edward operates an integrative pedagogy, understanding that individual student learning occurs on a spectrum of interests, abilities, and styles, and who each have their own unique potential to positively impact society. They have an established background in creating effective and inclusive learning environments built on this learner-centred approach to the design of curriculum, assessment methods, and student wellbeing. Their focus on designing learning as an experience is aimed at providing students with a more holistic and authentic education that integrates multiple subjects and topics which students can connect to real world scenarios.

In practice, this approach often blends knowledge-based learning techniques with hands-on, experiential learning activities such as visual projects, creative experiments, and play. This allows students to engage with and apply what they are learning in a meaningful way. This helps students harness their own capabilities and interests so that they can, in their own ways, deal with the magnitude and complexity of today’s global challenges, whilst recognising the power in effective collaboration to bridge cultural divides.

Research

Edward’s sensory (auto)ethnographic research explores the design of being and belonging in everyday experience, which often results in them transcending disciplinary boundaries. Within this broad scope, Edward's research is perhaps best characterised by two interweaving strands. One, they are drawn to particular contexts: leisure and play, myth and folklore, and magic and mysticism. Two, they engage with philosophical and methodological debate - a key element of Edward's research is their advocacy for embracing otherworlds, creative practice, and experimental methods in academia. Edward is available to supervise postgraduate and doctoral students, and particularly welcomes proposals for projects related to their research interests.

You can read Edward’s doctoral thesis here.

Recent publications