Professor Bill Lucas is Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester. Previously a school leader and the founder of two not for profit educational organisations, Learning through Landscapes and the Campaign for Learning, Bill is a writer, speaker and education reformer.
Bill’s research focuses on understanding those dispositions for learning which help people succeed and flourish in life, how they can be cultivated and how evidenced. Bill is chair of the advisory board of the Global Institute of Creative Thinking, co-chair of the strategic advisory group PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Test, and adviser to the LEGO Foundation, curator of Creativity Exchange and a Commissioner for ICAPE. In 2020, Bill co-founded Rethinking Assessment.
The model of creative thinking developed by Bill and colleagues is now used in more than thirty countries across the world and was the stimulus for a four year study by the OECD. In 2019 Bill co-authored the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education and now facilitates a major intervention project in England, the Creativity Collaboratives.
Bill is a prolific writer. His acclaimed critique of the education system, Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn, written with Guy Claxton, asks challenging questions about the future of education. Creative Thinking in Schools: a leadership playbook was published in July 2023 to great acclaim.
