Our Founder Dr. Darlene E. Clover Professor of Leadership Studies, University of VictoriaFounder, Feminist Imaginary Research Network (FIRN) Dr. Darlene Clover is an internationally recognized scholar in feminist adult education, arts-based research, and community cultural leadership. For more than three decades, her work has challenged conventional boundaries of learning by integrating creative, aesthetic, and activist…

24-27 August 2025, Merano Women’s Museum – Via Mainardo, 2 The workshop “Cartographies of Interruption and Influence: Feminist Educational Strategies in Museums in Response to Gender-Based Violence” took place at the Merano Women’s Museum, Italy, from 24–27 August 2025. Over four days, participants engaged in presentations, workshops, small-group discussions, and interactive activities, including feminist museum…

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Dr Victoria Foster is Senior External Engagement Fellow at Edge Hill University, a role which involves embedding of external engagement and knowledge exchange into the University’s research activities. Victoria is also Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility (CSR), a cross-faculty research and knowledge exchange initiative at Edge Hill University that is committed to generating…

Publications Butterwick, S. (2022). Stories of Hope, Imagination, and Transformative Learning: A Dialogue. in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education has been published  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ace.20478 

Presentations Art Activist Barbie – Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 As part of the Good Society lecture series and an International Women’s Day special, Edgehill University has invited an appearance from Art Activist Barbie (AAB). AAB is the brainchild of Dr Sarah Williamson of Huddersfield University. She will explore art activism and ‘good activism’ for…

Homecare Worker Stories A short film with homecare workers talking about their everyday experiences in providing homecare.

Franger, G. (2023). Else Oppler. Eine außergewöhnliche Künstlerin 1875 – 1965. (Else Oppler. An extraordinary artist). Nürnberg: Frauen in der Einen Welt.   Auer, S, Franger, G. & Niehoff-Hack, A. (Eds) (2022). Plakat Kunst. Poster Art. Nürnberg: Frauen in der Einen Welt.   Bala, E,. Franger, G.& Jakovljević-Šević, T. (2022): Oko Glave, Različiti diskursi marame…

The project Changing gendered patterns of power through creative dialogic pedagogies of the Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2020 of the Embassy of Canada in Italy funded our Visiting to the University of Victoria (BC), Canada, between November 12th-19th, 2022. The logic of the project was to experiment in Italy with feminist, creative and dialogic pedagogies and…