Jamie has contributed to the development of RoundView approach, learning tools and poetry since 2019, starting with archival research to inform the Unintended Consequences exhibition at Quarry Bank, National Trust. As a Research Associate in Planning Property and Environmental Management at The University of Manchester, he was seconded to UNESCO Manchester City of Literature, testing and developing the RoundView in libraires and civic spaces. His past research focused on the medical and environmental history of Quarry Bank Mill.
John McAuliffe’s poetry collections with The Gallery Press include The Way In (2015), winner of the Michael Hartnett Award; ]The Kabul Olympics (2020), Selected Poems (20220 and National Theatre (2026). John is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester, where he founded the Centre for New Writing with novelist Ian McGuire and is also Associate Publisher at Carcanet Press. In Jan 2026 he was appointed as Associate Vice-President (Cultural Portfolio) at the University. John has led the creative development of poetry as pedagogy for the RoundView, crafting poems into teaching tools and mentoring the team to develop their ability to blend words and meaning.
Matt was the Co-Investigator on the British Academy Innovation Fellowship that brought RoundView to the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Bioshpere and Manchester UNESCO City of Literature. He has been a key contributor to our thinking about how to scale the approach.
Tawona has translated RoundView poems into Shona, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Junyi is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research focuses on the governance of carbon dioxide removal, with particular interests in public participation, environmental justice, and the socio-political dimensions of emerging climate technologies. She is supervised by Professor Noel Castree and Dr Rob Bellamy.
Junyi worked with the team on the Flexible Learning Pilot, exploring how RoundView learning could be scaled up across the University of Manchester. She contributed to the learning design, development and testing of workshop processes, and analysis of participant feedback.
Jenny is an educator, teacher trainer and changemaker working in the Further Education and Skills sector in the UK. Having recently completed an MA in Education for a Sustainable Environment with the University of Manchester, Jenny develops and delivers CPD to support FE teachers to embed and embody a sustainable worldview in their teaching practice.
She is developing and testing new ways to use the RoundView toolkit to make the principles of sustainability relevant to a wide range of vocational pathways, helping educators to equip young people with the thinking skills they need to transform their own lives, their workplaces and communities.
Lou Mycroft co-created the Green Changemakers programme with Fircroft College of Adult Education in 2023. Green Changemakers is a systems, mindset and culture change initiative, which trains 3% of any workforce in changemaking skills, bringing energy, spirit and momentum to the organisation’s environmental justice (good) intentions, creating joyful communities and offering a unique consultancy perspective.
Following the initial pilot in the West Midlands, Green Changemakers is now a social enterprise, currently working with four further education colleges in Yorkshire, the East Midlands and East Anglia. We become a Community Interest Company in 2026.
The RoundView is the missing piece of the Green Changemakers jigsaw (ironically!), the bit we were missing with the original pilot. It’s the first activity we do with Green Changemakers after the welcome stage. No matter what we come into the room knowing (or thinking we know), it gets us all on the same page with ’the science stuff’ and enables us to see where potentia – joyful changemaking energy – fits in. Everyone loves it – always – and, as facilitators, we learn something new every time. Lou is helping us develop new ways to incorporate RoundView into changemaking and skills development programmes.
Ishnoor is a Sustainability Champion and Volunteering Programme Support Assistant for the Student Union at the University of Manchester. She is coordinating RoundView student volunteers, liaising with libraries, museums and students to create opportunities for learning across Greater Manchester.
Ali Al-Jamri is a Bahraini writer and poet based in the UK. He was one of three inaugural Manchester Multilingual City Poets, 2022-2024 In this role he was commissioned to translate RoundView poems into Arabic, working with a team of multi-lingual poets and researchers at the University of Manchester. He is a member of Young Identity and mentored by Commonword, BBC Words First 2020 semi-finalist, and new Writing North Arabic Translation mentee, 2021. He is currently working on an Arts Council England-funded project: The Legend of the Loom: The Weavers’ Debate.
He has translated RoundView poems into Arabic. He has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Bertony Louis is a Haitian poet whose work bridges cultures, languages, and continents. Winner of nineteen international poetry awards and author of Recovering the Horizons (Recoudre les Horizons) (L’Appeau Strophe, 2022), he has received prestigious fellowships and residencies, including the Scholars at Risk Program at Harvard University and the Artist Protection Fund. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Pinhole Poetry, North of Oxford Review, Entrevous, Eunoia Review, and Oupoli. Exploring themes of nature, brotherhood, displacement, sadness, and exile, his work has been presented in readings and workshops across Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. He is currently a Research scholar Fellow in residence at Carnegie Mellon University and Writer in Residence at City of Asylum in the United States.
He has translated RoundView poems into French, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Anjum Malik is an established scriptwriter, poet, performer, and senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University who has written several much-acclaimed original plays for BBC, ITV and theatre. Her first languages were Urdu, American English and Panjabi; born of Pakistani parents in Saudi Arabia; she was multilingual and international before she could walk.
She has translated RoundView poems into Urdu, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Jing’s research is focused on intercultural experiences and learning. Her PhD is titled: Understanding Chinese International Students’ Interculturality through Their Narrativised Sojourn Experiences in the UK. Her recent work explores the expectation-experience dynamics, and language attitudes and practices in academic sojourns.
She has translated RoundView poems into Mandarin, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Dr Mariana Casale: PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies (Manchester), MA in English Literature, Culture and Modernity (London). Mariana is a narrative bibliotherapist, researcher, facilitator, trainer, mentor and supervisor. She is Founder of the School of Narrative Bibliotherapy. Translator, and a sessional lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester.
Mariana has translated RoundView poems into Spanish, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Rody Gorman was born in Dublin in 1960 and lives in the Isle of Skye. He works as a writer, an editor, a translator and a lecturer. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as detailed below. He has published collections of poetry in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, as detailed below. His most recent publications are Sa Chnoc (CLÀR Publishers), which was awarded the Derick Thompson Poetry Prize 2024, and Sweeney: An Intertonguing (Francis Boutle Publishers), which was shortlisted for the same award. His latest collection Wanderweg / Guth le Sruth (Boutle) is published in 2026.
Rody has translated RoundView poems into Scottish Gaelic, and has worked with the team on developing our understanding of poetry as pedagogy and how multi-lingual poetry helps us to learn.
Iris is currently in secondary school. He is especially interested in the arts and drama. He has contributed to the development of the RoundView from an early age, testing and giving feedback on each iteration of the puzzles. During the COVID lockdown he helped prototype the first three-dimensional learning tools for the RoundView, drawing pictures and helping write the original poem: Building Block of Life.
Spun From Air and Sunlight is a 56 year old Biology lecturer from the midlands, he rediscovered poetry as a way to express his feelings after the death of his wife in 2023 and passionately believes that behind the sadness this world is filled with, and driven by, the power of joy. When he discovered RoundView he was blown away to realise that it was the missing piece of the puzzle that lets humans understand how they fit into the wonderful network that is life on Earth.
Spun from Air and Sunlight has written several poems inspired by RoundView, which he uses in his practice, and that can be seen here, as well as helping with the redesign of RoundView jigsaws following feedback from his testing in an FE context.