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Munden, Dr Paul

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Journalism and Creative Writing
Faculty of Arts & Design

Bldg, Floor & Room: 20, C38
Telephone: (02) 6206 8715
Facsimile: (02) 6201 2649
Paul.Munden@canberra.edu.au

Biography

Paul Munden studied English and Related Literature at the University of York, in England, and was a founder member of the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), of which he became Director. For his Doctorate in Professional Studies by Public Works he was awarded the Ken Goulding Prize for Professional Excellence from Middlesex University.

He has worked as conference poet for the British Council on topics including predictive medicine, the looting of cultural artefacts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the role of cultural relations in addressing conflict. He edited the British Council anthology, Feeling the Pressure: poetry and science of climate change (2008).

He is associate editor of Axon, and co-editor of Meniscus, the international literary journal, also general editor of Writing in Education and Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research.

Analogue/Digital, his book of new and selected poems, is forthcoming from Smith/Doorstop (UK).

Paul is working as Program Manager and Coordinator, Collaborative Projects, for the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) within the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research.

Areas of Teaching

  • Poetry

Research Interests

  • Research to date has focused primarily on the work of poets and other writers in schools, and the development of creative writing as a discipline in UK universities. Current interests include poetry in partnership with other arts and as a medium for biographical study.

Qualifications Obtained

  • BA (Hons), The University of York
  • DProf, Middlesex University

Research

Research Reports

  • Munden, P (2013) Beyond the Benchmark: Creative Writing in Higher Education, York: The Higher Education Academy
  • Munden, P and N Owen (2010) Class Writing: A NAWE Research Report into the Writers-in-Schools Ecology, York: NAWE

Poetry books

  • (2011) Asterisk, Sheffield: Smith/Doorstop
  • Munden, P (2015) Analogue/Digital: New and Selected Poems, Sheffield: Smith/Doorstop

Edited Books

  • Munden, P (2008) Feeling the Pressure: poetry and science of climate change, Berne: British Council

Book Chapters

  • Munden, P (2015) 'Poetry by Heart' in G Harper (ed) Creative Writing and Education, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 68-70
  • Munden, P (forthcoming) 'Writing and Education' in J Kroll, A Melrose and J Webb (eds)  'Old and New, Tried and Untried': Creativity and Research in the 21st Century University, Champaign: Common Ground Publishing

Edited Journals

  • J Blake, T Shortis and Munden, P (2014) Writing in Education 63
  • Munden, P (2014) Writing in Education 64

Journal articles

  • Munden, P (2011) 'Sharing the Art, Craft and Imagination: The National Association of Writers in Education', New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Special Issue Making Connections: Creative Writing in the 21st Century: 215-37

Exhibitions

  • Munden, P (2009) in The Black Page (exhibition catalogue) The Laurence Sterne Trust
  • Munden, P (2011) in The Emblem of My Work (exhibition catalogue) The Laurence Sterne Trust

Grants

  • Arts Council England, annual funding for the National Association of Writers in Education, finally £148,000 in 2012.
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation, £145,000, and Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, £26,500, for writers-in-schools research project, 'Class Writing', 2006-9.
  • Arts Council England, £60,500 to support emerging writers, 2008.
  • Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, £25,000 for professional development provision for writers, 2002.
  • Arts Council England, £105,000 for a professional development programme for writers, 2001-3.
  • Arts Council England, £105,000 for a professional development programme for writers, 2001-3.

Awards

  • Ken Goulding Prize for Professional Excellence, Middlesex University, 2014.
  • Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, 1987.
  • Writer's Bursary from Yorkshire Arts Association, 1982.