Allan Owens

Allan Owens is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in to Education, Creativity and Arts through Practice (RECAP), Professor of Drama Education, a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the University of Chester and a UK National Teaching Fellow. He has a passionate interest in the use of arts based methods as a form of turning to learning in the professions including the arts, education, justice system, health, heritage, organisations and business. He has led long-term capacity building projects, run intensive short programmes, developed research initiatives and staged pre-text based interactive performances in collaboration with colleagues locally, nationally and internationally- having worked in 17 countries with long term projects currently in Finland, Sweden, Spain, Palestine and Japan.