Jude Brigley

Jude Brigley was born, and lives, in Maesteg. She has taught for over forty years and always wanted to improve, hone and adapt practice. She has led learning and teaching in a variety of schools and written various books, poems and articles on education.  She has contributed talks, workshops and guidance at a national level. She is an experienced coach and mentor.
Jude has run two performance poetry groups, Connect and Poetry Unlimited, which both worked in schools and she is a performance poet herself. She is also the editor of two poetry anthologies, The Poet's House (Pont, 1998) and Exchanges: Poems by Women in Wales (Honno, 1990), which were created with students in mind. She is now writing more material for the page and her latest book of poems is called Labours (Thynks, 2014). While being an experienced examiner, inset provider and research student, she still retains her enthusiasm for the classroom. In 2009, she was named as a teaching trailblazer by the Poetry Society (UK).
In January 2011 she was awarded a Doctorate for her work on poetic intelligence and creativity. Her thesis presents groundbreaking evidence to suggest that students can be trained in poetic thinking and that this can have a significant impact on the quality and outcomes of their learning. Her PhD research also looked at creative thinking and she continues to champion the role of action research in developing projects in the classroom. Jude is an experienced CPD provider and has held many posts of responsibility including Chief Examiner for Media Studies and the chair of NACE Cymru. She loves to write and to get others to love writing too.
Dr. Jude Brigley
Judeteach_write@hotmail.com
Judebrigley.co.uk/blog