Riya Kartha

Riya Kartha is a lifelong learner, writer, poet, arts-facilitator and educator. Currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, her research focuses on the inner lives and spirituality of teachers who practise value-creating education and Daisaku Ikeda’s human education in their pedagogy. A TESOL graduate from Soka University, Japan, Riya’s research has, in the past, explored the implementation of the arts in learning, and the impact of fostering self-expression and safe space in the arts-based English language classroom. Riya is keen to engage in conversations around peace and nuclear disarmament, particularly with students in schools across the world. Riya remains most interested in how to disrupt archaic practises of writing staid biographies within academia and should you reach the end of her bio here, she encourages you to get in touch in order to further explore how to collaborate to recenter heart, spirit, wonder and humanity within education again.