Lisa Smallwood

I work for the University of Northampton as a senior lecturer in education, children and young people and special educational needs and inclusion. I am a dramatherapist, theraplay therapist and creative practitioner who has worked across the UK and abroad delivering creative arts projects which offer therapeutic benefits to participants. 

My research interests include the role of the creative arts in the lives of children and young people developmentally, emotionally and socially, inclusion, forensics and art-based practice in education. I have published in the fields of education, forensics and dramatherapy.  I have conducted research in the field of higher education, in particular, peer mentoring practice and collaborative experiential learning practice with community organisations. 

I coordinate and teach a number of undergraduate modules including:

• Promoting emotional well-being (Level 4)
•  Introduction to Childhood and Youth (Level 4)
• Children and young people, their rights and the law (Level 4)
• Young people and society part 1: SEN and inclusion (Level 5)
• Young people and society part 2: diversity and pluralism (Level 5)
• Safeguarding (Level 5)
• Empowering, Creative and Therapeutic Approaches (Level 6)
• Social Justice (Level 6)
• Creative Arts Approaches to Inclusion (Level 6)
• Emacipatory Approaches in children's services (Level 6)
• Work based learning (Levels 4, 5 and 6)