Intellect

Susan Orr is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at York St. John University. In 2009, she was awarded a chair in Pedagogy in Creative Practice. Susan’s research focuses on assessment practices in art and design. She has developed a theorized account of art and design assessment practice that has been used as a means to bring greater reflexivity to the assessment practices adopted in art and design. Working from a social constructivist perspective, her research identifies that assessment discourses are interlocked with narratives of identity and power relations. Susan also researches the role of writing in arts based curricula. Her research in this area subverts the visual/textual binary by recasting writing as a practice that has much in common with studio practice.

Susan is on the editorial advisory board of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice and she has presented papers at a number of conferences in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. She has authored a range of articles, papers and chapters on pedagogies in creative practice.