Dr Meg Peterson is a scholar, artist, cultural leader, educator and activist whose work has taken her around the globe to use art and creativity as a means of connecting people and communities. She is the Founder of 21 Artists, a creative consultancy focused on fostering, documenting, and evaluating creative social change through projects and programmes with universities, NGOs, charities, artists, and community groups. Projects utilise inclusive, feminist, democratic and participatory methodologies to develop research and evaluation frameworks with UK-based organisations as well as collaborations with organisations in the US, Brazil, Ghana, Greece, Somalia, Italy, Chile, Uganda, Morocco, and Palestine. Meg is also a Senior Lecturer in Creativity & Entrepreneurship at King’s College London, pioneering research and teaching focusing on cultural entrepreneurship, arts-based methods, creativity, and social change.

She uses art and creativity as a research tool in a participatory way, working with communities around the globe to co-create data, gather data and connect in more meaningful ways using the power of the arts