Dr Beatriz Acevedo

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Associate Professor in Creative Education. Education Leadership (Fellowships and Awards) Anglia Learning and Teaching National Teaching Fellow, 2020 Principal Fellow, Advance HE
Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Creative practice , Education for Sustainability , Design Innovation
Research Supervision:
Yes

Beatriz Acevedo is an artist-academic, passionate about supporting academic staff in their educational leadership journey, using creative-based methods, reflective practice and professional accreditation, as well as creativity and education for sustainability. 

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Background

Dr Beatriz Acevedo is a Colombian artist and educator, working in the UK for almost 20 years. Beatriz is passionate about exploring the intersections between creativity and learning and teaching. She believes in the power of art and beauty to transform lives and enhance learning.

Beatriz's role at Anglia Learning and Teaching concerns the support for Academic Recognition and Fellowships, mentoring and supporting Principal Fellowships. She is also the Teaching Excellence Award Lead liaising with Advance HE and supporting nominees and teams for National Teaching Fellowships and Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence, as well as other external awards.  

Beatriz has worked as Academic Developer for Ruskin Modules, Academic Lead for Employability, and Module leader of sustainability in Business and Management education. Prior to working at Anglia Learning and Teaching, she has worked as a senior lecturer in Sustainability and Responsible Business at the Faculty of Business and Law (ARU); researcher at University of Bedfordshire; Teaching Assistant at University of Hull, and Lecturer and consultant at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). 

Beatriz is the co-creator of the podcast Exquisite Education with Professor Andrew Middleton. 

Alongside her work as academic, Beatriz has developed an extensive artistic practice with exhibition in the United Kingdom and Latin America. She uses creativity to empower leaders and entrepreneurs, while working on gender issues, equality, diversity and inclusion.  Beatriz has extensive experience working in education and social development, gender empowerment, and creative social development in Latin America and Europe. She has also experience in working with SMEs and third sector organisations in processes of reducing their carbon footprint and enhancing their environmental practices.

Research interests
  • Educational leadership
  • Teaching for Creativity
  • Reflective Learning and Practice
  • Beauty and education
  • Design Thinking 
  • Interdisciplinarity
     
Areas of research supervision
  • Education for Sustainability
  • Creativity and Education
Teaching

Beatriz is passionate about education for sustainability and a great advocate of using art-based methodologies in her teaching. She has taught a number of modules during the last few years, including

  • Design Thinking
  • Sustainable Transformation and Environmental Practice
  • Responsible Management
  • International Intercultural Management
Qualifications
  • 2007: PhD University of Hull, UK
  • 2005: Postgraduate Certification in Higher Education, University of Hull, UK
  • 2002: MA Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • 2001: MBA and Gender. International Training Centre for Women. The Netherlands
  • 1994: BEng (industrial) Universidad de los Andes. Bogota. Colombia.
Memberships, editorial boards
  • Member of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism SCOS, and reviewer for Culture and Organization.
  • Member of the Art of Management in Organisation, and reviewer for Organizational Aesthetics.
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange
  • September 2021: Design Thinking. Executive training education for a group of CEOs and public servants from the Hyria Business Institute-Finland. Faculty of Business and Law. RIDO
  • 2021-2014: Collaborative Teaching Development Project, GoGreen. Funded by the Higher Education Academy. Partners: National Union of Students and University of Bristol.
  • 2012-2014- Higher Education Academy. Teaching Collaborative Grant.
  • 2012-2015-University Teaching Fellowship Grant.
  • 2011: Programme Enterprising Academics. Work with enterprises and SMEs in the East of England working on sustainability and social responsibility.
  • 2010-2012 – KTP Organisation for Responsible Businesses.
  • 2010: Programme ‘Survive and Thrive’. Working with SMEs in the East of England.
Selected recent publications

Brown, E. and Acevedo, B. (2024) 'Playing with interdisciplinarity in liminal spaces: an institutional perspective'. In: Kemp, I. and Scott, S. (Eds) (2024) Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Practice and Pedagogies. Cambridge: Ethics Press. In press.

Parsley, S. and Acevedo, B. (2024) 'Pieces of me, letters from us: Collage-making as embodied reflection in autoethnography', Culture and Organization, Special Issue: Collective Writing and Intimate Encounters. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2024.2394450

Darlington, M. and Acevedo, B. (2024) 'The Art of Questioning: conversations with Ai Weiwei'. Cambridge Social Innovation Blog, 6 February 2024.

Middleton, A. and Acevedo, B. (2023) 'Creating a Playful Conversational Learning Space using Surrealism and Podcasting', Journal of Play in Adulthood, 5(1), pp. 1-19. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5920/jpa.1272

Fadli, H., Acevedo, B., Malevicius, R. and Lamberti, C. (2023) 'RawTag: Art and Education for Sustainability'. In: Taylor, S., Galvao, M. and Lehtimaki, H. (Eds) (2023) Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society - Theoretical Insights and Engagement. London: Palgrave.

Acevedo, B., Malevicius, R., Fadli, H. and Lamberti, C. (2022) 'Aesthetic Education for Sustainability', Culture and Organisation, Special Issue: Teaching what is not there: Engaging art in higher education on organizing and management, 28(3-4), pp. 263-278. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2022.2028147

Brown, E. and Acevedo, B. (2022) 'Interdisciplinary Design for ambiguity: work in a wicked world'. In Norton, S. and Penaluna, A. (Eds) (2022) 3 Es for Wicked Problems: Employability, Enterprise, and Entrepreneurship: Solving Wicked Problems. York: Advance HE, pp. 16-20.

Middleton, A., Acevedo, B., Boz, M., Hawkins, C., Outteridge, J., Scruton, A. and Kite, L. (2021) 'Making sense of employability through an active blended curriculum'. In: Padilla Rodriguez, C. and Armellini, A. (Eds) (2021) Cases on Active Blended Learning in Higher Education. New York: IGI Global, pp. 276-290.

Acevedo, B. and Malevicius, R. (2021) 'Rethinking education for sustainability in Management education: Going beyond metrics toward Human Virtues'. In: Perez-Uribe, R., Largacha-Martinez, C. and Ocampo-Guzman, D. (Eds) (2021) Handful of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies. New York: IGI Global, pp. 219-234.

Recent presentations and conferences

'Writing Beautifully', for the international event Researching and Writing at the Crossroads in support of CARA, 18 June, 2024.

'How to activate your creative superpowers', #CreativeHE Workshop, 14 February, 2024. 104 attendants from universities in the UK.

'RawTag: Authentic learning, students’ engagement and creativity', Micro Lecture for UNESCO IESALC, 23 September 2021.