Ray Grewal is an award-winning writer, director and producer across film, theatre, television and radio, and has worked with the BBC, Creative UK, the British Film Institute and Ffilm Cymru as a script editor, mentor and development executive. He is currently lecturing in Visual and Performance Storytelling at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), where he works with BA and MA students in performance, filmmaking and animation. He brings an industry-informed perspective to his research into generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and creative writing pedagogy.
Following an MA in Academic Practice at UAL, during which he conducted empirical research into GenAI's role within the creative writing classroom across three London institutions and fifty-two students, Ray has developed this work into a substantial body of scholarship. His article "Becoming Creative Cyborgs: What Role(s) for GenAI in the Creative Writing Classroom?" has been accepted for publication in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. A second article, "Be-ing Becoming: Ubuntu, Posthumanism and Yi's Living Structure in Teaching Creative Writing with GenAI", has been accepted by Writing in Practice: the Journal of Creative Writing Research, and elaborates his concept of narrative multilingualism, developed through his work with Mandarin-speaking students.
In March 2026, Ray delivered the keynote address "GenAI Cannot Dream of Electric Sheep: Analytic Rumination, the Boden Principle and the Limits of GenAI in Creative Writing and Research" at the UAL Doctoral School's Spring Writing Retreat. He will shortly present further research at the AI and Creative Education Symposium in London, continuing to foster critical, informed engagement with AI across the creative higher education sector.
