Steven
Cranfield is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogic Research in Higher Education at the
University of Westminster. He is the author of papers, articles, chapters and
books on health, management and leadership,
education and the creative arts. At
Westminster he is course leader of the MA in Higher Education and he jointly
co-ordinates the Higher Education And Theory (HEAT) network and the Translaborate
research group, a transdisciplinary forum exploring the confluence of ideas of
translation and collaboration. His books include Training matters (Health Education Authority, 1994), Developing change management skills
(with Valerie Iles, 2004) for the UK's National Health Service, and Of purest blue (with Claudio Tedesco,
Get A Grip, 2010), an edited co-translation into English of the eminent Spanish
poet Francisco Brines. He is a contributing author to Enhancing teaching practice in higher education (edited by Helen
Pokorny and Digby Warren, Sage, 2016). Having studied English as an
undergraduate with F. R. Leavis, he worked for many years as a healthcare
professional, going on to teach, consult and research with a number of
universities and national and intergovernmental bodies. During the 1990s he
returned to Leavis as the subject of his doctoral research. He is Vice-Chair of
the Leavis Society.