Jude Bloomfield

Dr. Bloomfield is an independent researcher in urban cultures, cultural planning and citizenship, specialising in multiculturalism and interculturalism, and a translator and poet.

She taught, modern European politics and history at University College London for eight years and is currently a research associate of the International Cultural Planning and Policy Unit, De Montfort University, Leicester. She is methodology advisor and life stories researcher on the Comedia, Joseph Rowntree project The Intercultural City - Making the Most of Diversity.  Her most recent publications are Planning for the Intercultural City (2004) and Crossing the Rainbow: a study of the multicultural and intercultural performing arts in nine European countries (2003).

Forthcoming publications include Intercultural Innovators - Learning from Life Stories, research report Comedia and Rowntree Foundation, 2006 and  'Researching the Urban Imaginary: resisting the erasure of places' in Weiss-Sussex G. & F.Bianchini eds. Urban Mindscapes of Europe, Amsterdam: Rodopi  2007.