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Elizabeth Smears
Dr. Elizabeth Smears is a senior lecturer in Education within the Centre for Postgraduate and Professional Development at Liverpool John Moores University. She is also an honorary lecturer within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool. The focus of her academic work and professional practice is in physicality somatics and wellbeing, creativity and inclusion. Lizzie has worked with many different communities and uses the arts to support engagement in learning. Lizzie has an MEd in the therapeutic and educational use of the arts, and a Ph.D. that explores gender and physicality. Lizzie is involved in research and evaluation projects with education organizations, community programmes and health promotion agencies that address inclusion. Her research interests include physicality, somatics and well being, inclusion, creativity and learning. She is involved in ESRC funded educational research that focuses on creativity in education.