Daisy Mae Wright – Artist-Teacher + Post-Graduate Researcher

Daisy Wright is an artist teacher and doctoral researcher with teaching and lecturing experience across secondary and postgraduate education. Her teaching in culturally diverse school and university settings has shaped and continues to inform her research practice. As an early-career researcher, Daisy has undertaken projects exploring race, inclusion, and decolonisation in education. Her work was recognised with the National Society for Education in Art and Design Rising Star Award 2024. She has presented at the 14th Annual International Journal for Art and Design conference and continues to publish in academic books and journals.

Alongside her research, Daisy works as an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) specialist. She has supported a range of organisations, including as EDI Co-Lead for the University of the West of England’s School of Education alongside lecturing on the PGCE programme,, advising on policy implementation for, contributing to institution-wide EDI training, and delivering anti-racist professional development for several academy trusts. She also guest-lectures and leads workshops for external organisations, with a focus on race, social mobility, and cultural identity.

Daisy has specialised in art-based research with a Bachelors in Drawing and Applied Arts, two Masters, firstly in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking and secondly in Artist Teacher Practice, and a PGCE in Secondary Education, and she is now undertaking her PhD at the University of Bristol under a fully funded scholarship exploring how arts-based research methods support identity understanding in mixed-race secondary school students.

Daisy continues to be an advocate of inclusion in arts education as an active member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design and United Black Artist Educators groups.