PEER REVIEW.
Shades of Noir has been pleased to invite Arooj Khan and Claire Hiscock to peer review this Terms of Reference. Arooj Khan is the Research and Knowledge Manager for Business in the Community’s Education campaign, and an Urban Geographies PhD student at the University of Birmingham. She is also a Community Arts Facilitator who utilises arts workshops as a medium to discuss area specific issues. She has evaluated programmes on behalf of the Barbican, Create London, InIVA and The Hayward Gallery. She has also partnered with Metal Arts, Thurrock Arts Trail and Hidden Gems to facilitate bespoke arts workshops. She frequently writes and comments on race, creative research methods, the diasporan identity, social mobility, regeneration and neo-liberalism, typically through an intersectional lens. Claire Hiscock is a Language Development Tutor at the University of the Arts London. She works with both undergraduate and postgraduate students whose first language tends not to be English. Her interest in Language and Power became more focused when studying under Norman Fairclough at Lancaster university. Now she teaches Academic Language skills across the different colleges and the many disciplines at the University of the Arts. Her work focuses on ensuring that language does not become a barrier to attainment and that all students can get the most from their studies. For many years, she lived and worked in Italy, where she developed a postgraduate course that drew on world English literature to develop courses that expanded the vision of the traditional canon. Back in London, she still aims in her work to extend understandings of the richness and diversity of the forms that language can take.
10 // DISCOURSE: THE POWER OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION.
