Paul Kleiman is Deputy Director of PALATINE, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Dance Drama and Music and a Senior Research Fellow of the university.

He trained as a theatre designer at the Wimbledon School of Art, and worked - as a designer, director, performer and administrator - with a number of the leading companies in the field of Theatre-in-Education, political and community touring theatre. These included Belt & Braces Roadshow, Red Ladder, Perspectives Theatre and M6 Theatre Co. He combined his theatre work with part-time lecturing until 1989 when he joined City College Manchester where he set up and ran the Technical Theatre Arts degree course at the Arden School of Theatre in conjunction with the Royal Exchange Theatre.

His primary research interests are assessment, creativity and curriculum design, and he is a regular presenter at conferences and seminars on those subjects. In 2006 he was the only non-US researcher to be invited to participate in the US-based Creative Campus project , and in 2007 he was invited to be a special adviser on creativity and assessment to a group of liberal arts colleges in the US.

Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/lica/profiles/Paul-Kleiman/

Email: p.kleiman AT lancaster.ac.uk