Riya Kartha is a lifelong learner, writer, poet, arts-facilitator and educator. Currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, her research focuses on the inner lives and spirituality of teachers who practise value- creating education and Daisaku Ikeda’s human education in their pedagogy. A TESOL graduate from Soka University, Japan, Riya’s early research explored the implementation of the arts in learning in schools, centring questions around self-expression and safe spaces in the arts-based English language classroom in India.

Riya is keen to engage in conversations around nuclear disarmament, particularly with students in schools across the world. Riya remains most interested in how to disrupt archaic practises of writing staid biographies within academia and should you reach the end of her bio here, she encourages you to get in touch in order to further explore how to collaborate to recenter heart, spirit, wonder and humanity within education again.

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