My research is focused on learning with the world. I am currently exploring relationships between drawing and motion, examining the new understandings and connections that can emerge through these practices.

My PhD research explored children’s comic-making, with an emphasis on process, materials, assemblage, learning through making, and open-ended learning.

I have PhDs in Education (Bath Spa University, 2020) and Archaeology (University of Leicester, 2004).

Recent publications:

Sackett, H. (2025). Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition. Environmental Education Research, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2564733

Sackett, H. (2022). Loosening the Straight-Away of Thinking: Comic-Making as Arts Education. In: Aman, R., Wallner, L. (eds) Teaching with Comics. Palgrave Macmillan.

Sackett, H. (2021) Making the Monster House: Process, Assemblage, and the Study of Children’s Drawing Practices, Visual Arts Research, 47:2 pp 41-54.