Shibboleth Shechter

Biography

Shibboleth is an educator, researcher, and activist.

Shibboleth is Course Leader of BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design at the University of the Arts London, a higher education leader with Citizens UK working with communities to win change, and a PhD candidate in Educational Research at Lancaster University investigating students’ thinking through mapping to develop a cartosemiotic pedagogy in and for higher education.

Shibboleth's scholarship takes the form of exhibitions, events, conference presentations and publications on counter-mapping, community organising and climate justice. Shibboleth is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a UAL Senior Teaching Scholar, an award acknowledging her innovative practice and research integrating live project pedagogy into the curriculum.

AA Dipl, RIBA I & II, Pgcert Learning and Teaching (dist), MRes Landscape & Urbanism, UAL Senior Teaching Scholar, Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy