About

Dr Michael Eades is a public engagement specialist, writer and organiser based in London. He is currently Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Over the years he has led many projects focused on cities, community arts, co-production and engaging non-specialists in research. Organisations that he has worked with include Age UK, the AHRC, Arts Emergency, BBC Radio 3, the British Academy, British Museum, Horniman Museum, Glastonbury Festival, Institute of Physics and Nottingham City Arts – as well as universities and researchers across the UK. In 2014 he helped to found the Being Human festival of the humanities, acting as Curator and Manager of this UK-wide initiative until 2021.

His own research has been primarily collaborative and practice based, rooted in creative responses to place and community. He has pursued this across numerous projects, including  the AHRC-funded project ‘Bloomsbury Festival in a Box: engaging socially isolated people with dementia’.

He has written about cities, culture and the arts for publications including Arts Professional, Londonist and The i.  His creative writing, which explores similar themes, has appeared in places like Confluence, Reflex Press, Spelt and The Mechanics Institute Review.