Dr Penny Hay

Dr Penny Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Professor of Imagination at the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning at Bath Spa University, and Founding Director of House of Imagination. Her signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identities as artists.

Penny is strand leader for Creative Pedagogy in the Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Research Centre, and co-chair of the eARTh research group, which focuses on education, arts and the environment. She was recently co-investigator on Interstice, an Erasmus+ project in Europe researching the space between art, children and educators, and an artist-researcher on the AHRC-funded Rethinking Waste Compound13 project in Mumbai.

Penny was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Arts University Plymouth and a Fellowship in Imagination at the Centre for Future Thinking. She is a National Teaching Fellow and a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.