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

He is an educator, academic, and writer with an interest in creativity, poetry, literacy, inclusive education, critical pedagogy, theory and philosophy, digital pedagogy and technology, educational leadership and lifelong learning. He has wide ranging experience in education from primary and secondary to tertiary and adult education.

His current projects include being an editor on a book about phenomenological inquiry in education, creativity, risk and failure in policy and practice, graduate education and academic literacies, poetry pedagogy, school leadership and an ethnographic investigation of an older adult poetry class.

Core to Ed’s work is his interest in innovation, transdisciplinary 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.