Hello!

I’m Alison James, National Teaching Fellow 2014, Principal Fellow of the former Higher Education Academy – now AdvanceHE – in the UK, speaker, academic consultant, teacher, external examiner, professional coach and an experienced LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator and facilitator-trainer. I’m also Professor Emerita of the University of Winchester.

I’m also the

• author of numerous publications on play and creativity in university learning, most recently my three year study The Value of Play in HE, supported by the Imagination Lab Foundation and available free here
• co-editor, with Chrissi Nerantzi, of The Power of Play in HE: Creativity in Tertiary Learning, which, by January 2023, has been downloaded internationally over 50,000 times
• co-author, with Stephen D. Brookfield, of Engaging Imagination: Helping Students Become Creative and Reflective Thinkers, published by Jossey-Bass in 2014

Whether you find these pages by accident or planning, I hope you will find some, or all, of them useful.

If you would like me to talk to/for/at/with you about any of the work I do, please email me at engaginingimaginationdotcom@gmail.com.

You can also find more about me here:

Condensed CV

Who I am really