Miriam Stewart

Biography

Miriam Stewart is a Drama in Education facilitator specialising in embodying language. Her M.Ed. thesis explored the impact of embodiment on the acquisition of grammar in the language classroom and she has since built on this work to develop her own embodied methodology, Embodied English. She is a teacher trainer with Europass Teacher Academy Ireland where she has designed and developed a wide range of Erasmus courses to enhance teacher creativity. She also led the Dublin team in an international Europass Erasmus research project: LOL: The Role of Comedy and Humour in Learning, and designed the 2-week teacher training course which was created as a result of the project findings. 

Miriam was a researcher and facilitator on the Sorgente research project, investigating the role of belonging in performative language practice with refugees and migrants. She subsequently authored a chapter in the book "Performative Language Learning with Refugees and Migrants" edited by Erika Piazzoli and Fiona Dalziel. Miriam is passionate about practice based research, art in all its forms, supporting refugee and migrant learners, and encouraging teachers to become more comfortable with their own creativity.