Dr Annouchka Bayley (SFHEA) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.  She is Chair of the Arts & Creativities Research Group, runs the Entangled Futures Festival, is co-lead of LEAPLab at the CRASSH Centre, and formerly the director and designer of the Arts, Creativities & Education MPhil Programme (2021-24).  She writes scholarly books and articles on Posthumanism, Education and Arts.  You can see her academic page here.

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Annouchka has written, directed, and performed more than 20 plays and one-woman shows worldwide.  She is an Emerging Director with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Annouchka's first novel, The Blood Countess, is available now.  You can read an interview with her about the historical aspects of the book on BBC News here

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