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Notes on editors

Basia Sliwinska is an art historian and theorist working as a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, UK. Her research is engaged with feminist visual activism and transnational and intersectional figurations in contemporary women's art practice. Basia is on the research team of the Visual Activism and Sexual Diversity in Vietnam project funded by the AHRC/GCRF Research Networking grant. She is a member of the College Art Association's Committee on Women in the Arts and of the Steering Group for the PARADOX European Fine Art Forum. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Third Text.

Paul Haywood is Dean of Academic Programmes for Art and Performance at UAL: Central Saint Martins. He is Visiting Professor in Creative Community Engagement at the University of Salford. This opportunity supports his interest in developing tools for learning recognition for informal and non-formal educational experience. Paul is co-Chair of the National Association for Fine Art Education in the UK and a member of the Steering Group for the PARADOX European Fine Art Forum. He is on the Project Team of the global Shared Campus partnership. Paul's collaborative initiatives affecting change in the local context include Guns to Goods CIC.

Jason E. Bowman is an artist with a curatorial practice. He is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the HDK-Valand Academy of Arts, University of Gothenburg; and a member of the Steering Group for the PARADOX European Fine Art Forum. He is the Principle Investigator of Stretched: Expanded Notions of Artistic Practice in Artist-led Cultures (2015–20), funded by the Swedish Research Council. Stretched's curatorial initiatives include: In Case There's a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes (Raven Row gallery, London, 2017); Setting the Table (BALTIC Contemporary Arts, Gateshead, 2018) and queer timɘs school prints (Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2018).

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1 PARADOX Fine Art Education Forum (https://paradoxfineartforum.com) is a community of Fine Art practitioners, thinkers and educators whose aim is to foster dialogue and advocacy concerned with the evolving landscape for Fine Art education, teaching and research across Europe and beyond.