Dr Mark Ingham is a Reader in Critical and Nomadic Pedagogies, Senior Fellow and University of Arts London (UAL) Senior Teaching Scholar in the Design School at London College of Communication, UAL. His pedagogical and creative research over the last 35 years has been entangled encounters; with images of thought and memory, rhizomatic and meta-cognitive learning theories, fuzzy narratives and virtual and physical liminal teaching spaces. His research critiques relationships between autobiographical memory and photography and combines concepts of ‘becoming-learner’, assemblage theory, nomadic thinking, active blended learning, with ideas of belonging and critical pedagogies.
Mark is a visual artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally since graduating from Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Art in the 1980s. He uses old Single Lens Reflex (SLR) film cameras and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights to create multiple slide projectors in large scale art installations. His installation ‘120 Days and Nights of Staggering and Stammering’, is designed using 120 SLR film cameras and LED spotlights. Each of these handmade projectors displays images taken before and during the installation of the work, as well as audience-donated images.
After completing his Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the institute of Education he went on to be awarded a fully funded Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) practice-based PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. Mark has always put social justice models of education at the heart of his teaching and learning practice. His teaching is based on enhancing the student experience and has been central to his practice as a lecturer and his educational thinking. He engages students in a critically challenging and supportive atmosphere in all the courses he teaches and designs. He enhances programme and curriculum design so students go beyond what they think they can do and achieve the highest degree of creative thinking as possible.