Dr Chrissie Tiller is a writer, thinker, theatre practitioner and educator whose work sits deliberately at what she has always seen as the creative intersection between critical pedagogy, political activism and collaborative and social art practice. This has included initiating and leading major practice-based artist educations across the EU and Nordic countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Palestine, Turkey, Uganda and Japan and acting as advisor on art and social change for the EU Commission, the British Council, the Council of Europe, the European Cultural Foundation and the Goethe Instituut. She founded and led the MA in Participatory and Community Arts at Goldsmiths, London University from 2004-2010.

Following a three-year Fellowship at the Technological University, Dublin to examine her publications and practice in the context of the interconnecting oppressions of gender and class to which they have been a direct critical response, she has recently been awarded her Doctorate. She currently acts as an associate and critical friend to a number of arts organisations, including Heart of Glass, TekstLab in Oslo and the Poetry Translation Centre.