Paul Kleiman
Deputy Director
Contact
Tel: 07884 003695
Alternative phone number: (0) 1524 593775
Fax: +44 (0)1524 593071
Biography
Dr. Paul Kleiman joined PALATINE in 2000. His main responsibilities currently include strategic and operational planning and reporting, the direction of the events programme, leading the 'Starting Out' workshops for new lecturers, and PALATINE's marketing and publicity. He represents PALATINE and the HE performing arts sector on various strategic and policy groups and committees including Chair of the Higher Education Academy's Assessment Facilitation Group, Steering Group member of three of the creative and performing arts Centres of Excellence for Teaching and Learning, and member of the 14-19 Diploma Development Partnership of the Sector Skills Council. He is also an external examiner for several undergraduate and post-graduate courses, and regularly sits on course validation panels. He undertakes consultancy work on assessment, creativity, and curriculum design both here in the UK and internationally and is currently a special adviser to The Creativity and Critical Thinking project in the USA
Paul trained as a theatre designer at the Wimbledon School of Art, and then worked - as a designer, director, performer and writer - with a number of the leading companies in the field of Theatre-in-Education, political and community touring theatre. Companies he worked with included Belt & Braces Roadshow, Red Ladder, Perspectives Theatre and M6 Theatre Co. He combined his theatre work with part-time lecturing until 1989 when he joined City College Manchester where he set up and ran the Technical Theatre Arts degree course at the Arden School of Theatre.
In 1995 he joined the core team that created the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and its unique interdisciplinary performing arts degree programme. He then became LIPA's Head of Performance Design and Head of Assessment.
His primary research interests are creativity in higher education (the subject of his doctoral thesis), curriculum design, and assessment in the performing and visual arts, and he is a regular presenter at conferences and seminars on those subjects. His teaching specialisms are in the areas of devised performance and site-specific performance.
Publications
BOOK & JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2008, forthcoming: ‘Working amongst discourses’ In M. Saunders et al, Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Theory, Cases, Practices. Open University Press/SRHE (publication date: July 2008).
2008, forthcoming: ‘Towards transformation: conceptions of creativity in higher education’. In Creativity Special Edition: Innovations in Education and Teaching International (IETI)
KEYNOTE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Stumbling with confidence: towards a creative pedagogy (2007). University of Coventry, Learning and Teaching Conference, 2 July.
Design for Learning (2003) Learning Based on the Process of Enquiry Conference, University of Manchester, 1-2 September
A Journey Round the Borders of Creativity (2002), Inaugaural Conference of the Merseyside Creative Partnerships, Liverpool.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (recent)
2007
Towards transformation: creativity in higher education, AHRC/ESRC Workshops: The Discipline of Creativity - Exploring the Paradox, RSAMD, Glasgow.
Thinking, Making, Doing, Solving, Dreaming: conceptions of creativity in higher education. Creativity of Conformity? Building cultures of creativity in higher education UWIC, Cardiff.
2006
Creativity: commodification and conceptualisation. BERA Annual Conference, University of Warwick.
We Can Work It Out: assessing interdisciplinary practice. Disciplines in Dialogue 2 conference, University of Birmingham.
The Truth Is (Not) Out There: the work of the qualitative researcher in an age of uncertainty. Discourse, Power Resistance 5 "Research as a Subversive Activity", Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
2005
Employability Isn't Working: higher education, skills, and the creative industries. Arts into Employment conference, University of Chester.
ARTICLES
‘Beyond Excellence’ (article critiquing the ubiquity of excellence in higher education) Exchange Magazine, The Higher Education Academy, Winter 2008
‘Armed for a Multitude of Skills’ (article on how performing arts courses provide a range of important life/work skills). Lead article in THES Special Supplement on Skills, May 2003
‘Your course can be a real corker’ (article on using established principles of product design wieh designing the curriculum. THES, January 2003
‘How to be a Karl, not a Groucho in groups’ (article on how to enhance working in groups). THES, November, 2001
‘How to perform when the lights dim’ (article on the challenges of assessing live performance). THES, February 2001