Edwin (Ed) Creely is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

His research interests include:

• creativity
• phenomenology and phenomenological research
• poetry as pedagogy and writing practice
• literacy across the years
• inclusive education
• critical pedagogy
• theory and philosophy
• phenomenological research
• digital pedagogy
• educational technologies, including AI
• lifelong learning and active ageing

He has wide ranging experience in education from primary and secondary to tertiary and adult education.

His current projects include academic wellbeing, digital literacies for adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds, literacy practices in the middle years, and an ethnographic investigation of an older adult poetry class.

Core to Ed’s work is his interest in innovation, cross-disciplinary research, and creative practices. Ed is enthusiastic about exploring new models and perspectives to educational research and practice. He also has an abiding interest in phenomenology and its applications in research, as well as critical discourse analysis. 

Ed is a devoted poet. His poetry is available here: http://edspoetry.com.