John Cockram has a background in painting with work in collections in the UK and abroad and has practiced with artists, arts organizations and industry within an international context. This activity informs his published writing and UEL teaching practice, which involves collaborations with many agencies in and around East London for the management and delivery of student placements and residencies. He has a particular interest in learning strategies in Fine Art education, with a PhD exploring Fine Art pedagogy through a study of student activity in the residency / placement field.

Post-doctoral research has seen his work in higher education underpinned by an increasing involvement in participatory arts projects. A current emphasis is the bringing together of people and practices from different professional settings, in order to construct collaborative projects which create and define new forms of art.

Teaching and assessment on student placement and residency programmes.

Studio and Socially-Engaged Fine Art practice. Recent creative research centres on issues relating to health, science and the environment. This has been underpinned by key thematics from his doctoral study exploring Fine Art pedagogy: inter-disciplinary working; knowledge transfer; institutional / community synergy; the inter-dependence of context, competence and confidence; transferable skills; and the exchange of specialist & lay discourse in the formation of new knowledge.

CAVM

• VT 3004 Practical Theory
• VT 2002 State of The Arts 2

Art Practice research and development includes:

• Project ROOM. Arising from Cockram's short-listing in 2009 for Arts Council England's 'Artists Taking the Lead' intiative for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad [link 1/ below]

• HEAL group [Healthcare & Environmental Artist Liaison]: a Fine Art  practice and exhibition initiative to stimulate debate between these fields. [Arising from a Gunpowder Park/Haring Woods 'Bright Sparks' Award, for Cockram's project 'Environmental Health' 2006-2009 - link  2/ below]

• The ARTemis project: A creative collaboration with dutch marine engineer and master mariner, Johan Visser, and his ship Frisian Lady. From 2012, this industrial barge will be an East London centre for arts events and programming; involving inputs from the statutory education, Higher Education, Healthcare and Environmental sectors.

Examples: see 'Links' below

External examiner BA Hons. Fine Art - Middlesex University

Mentoring programme supervision - cSPACE arts organisation

1/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/08/13/artists_taking_the_lead_feature.shtml

2/ http://www.haringwoods.com/site/91/408.html

3/ http://www.haringwoods.com/site/91/444.html

4/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZc_DOqIvA

5/ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lei8GegHJ78J:www.engage.org/downloads/18BA16D0A_17.%2520John%2520Cockram.pdf+John+Cockram+engage&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjkZWHXN565zze5xIBqYyLA_Qdr6MqY8XnBjfJpJqz_n8wwBkO89o81JfrwrGS1sV6CDwoqxZgMRVsjCatTv2wjH3ixlNlA5rB78iBqPMzQTPisPNDIos5UqkItgwCabxopZDKc&sig=AHIEtbRrlmsoiwMnoW5Hu913fqst5byK9Q