Meet the team

Dr Emma Coffield

Emma Coffield is a Lecturer in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University and the Deputy Degree Programme Director for the MA programmes in Curating Art, Museum Studies and Global Heritage Management. She is internationally recognised for her collaborative work around artist-run/led initiatives and meanwhile use and for over 15 years has worked with a range of self-organised, grassroots artistic practices run by and for artists across the UK, as well as local and national governments, to highlight the working conditions and limitations imposed upon creative practice by temporary use. To date, Emma has led or co-led 10 collaborative, transdisciplinary projects in this area bringing together artists, creative practitioners, academics and local policy makers in order to foster co-designed, long-term urban futures. She has shared this work via public talks, lectures, a variety of written outputs (including freely available reports, creative writing and academic articles) and her work has gone on to inform cultural policy in the UK and beyond. Emma also has a keen interest in notions of ‘employability’ in the cultural and creative industries, and the impact of this discourse on students’ experiences of teaching and learning within Higher Education.