I am currently an Associate Professor in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. I also serve as Fellow, Dean of College, and Director of Studies in Education at Queens’ College.
Broadly speaking, my research is situated at the intersections of sociocultural studies in education, arts and aesthetics in education, curriculum and pedagogy studies, critical race theory, and decolonial theory. In the past, my critical ethnographic research has examined the pedagogic potential of alternative arts communities for marginalised urban youth. My ongoing research has turned towards decolonial studies in education, with a particular focus on challenging anti-Muslim discourses and practices in education. I welcome applications from doctoral students in these areas.
I serve as the Executive Editor for the Cambridge Journal of Education and I am the incoming Co-Chair of the Art Education Research Institute. I have received numerous awards for my teaching, including voted best lecturer at the University of Cambridge (2018) and best doctoral supervisor in the United Kingdom (2023). I also received an award for student partnership and empowerment at the University of Cambridge (2024). In my early professional life, I was an Echoing Green Fellow and founder of New Urban Arts, a nationally-recognised arts education organisation for young people.
Recent Publications
- Denmead, Tyler, Amina Shareef, and Duaa Karim. ‘White Educability: Lessons from the Terror Trial of a Far-Right Nationalist in England’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, September 2024, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2396906.
- Denmead, Tyler. ‘The Non-Profitisation of the Studio: Implications for Arts Education’. In Co-Operative Education, Politics, and Art, edited by Richard Hudson-Miles and Jackie Goodman. Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032655352
- Denmead, Tyler J. ‘Visual Art as a Racemaking Technology: Implications for Education’. Studies in Art Education 65, no. 1 (2 January 2024): 48–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393541.2023.2285210.
- "Time After Whiteness: Performative Pedagogy and Temporal Subjectivities in Art Education," Studies in Art Education 62, no 2 (2021), 130-141, doi: 10.1080/00393541.2021.1896252
- The Creative Underclass: Race, Youth, and the Gentrifying City (2019). Duke University Press.