Esther Sayers is Senior Lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths. Previously Curator for Young People’s Programmes at Tate Modern her research on learning and participation in the arts, culture and sport has a particular focus on equity and inclusion. Using auto ethnographic and practice based methods for her recent article Skateboarding, Time and Ethics: An Auto Ethnographic Adventure of Motherhood and Risk explores leisure and ‘productivity’ as ethical questions around desire, lifelong learning and social ‘good’. She considers the body and materiality as sites for learning and explores diffractive pedagogy as a means to resist representational modes of thought and expression