Chrissi Nerantzi is co-founder and co-leader of Creative Academic. She is a Principal Lecturer in Academic CPD in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her interest in creativity started in her childhood and never left her since. As a creative and open practitioner, Chrissi has initiated and participated in a number of creative collaborative projects in the context of language teaching, teacher education and academic development. Her work as a translator and writer of children's stories for many years, have fed her curiosity, imagination and playful approach with language, work and life more generally. Her children, Nassi and Ody and the world around her, are a great inspiration for her. To find out more about Chrissi, please visit her LinkedIn page or visit her personal blog. You can also connect with her via twitter  @chrissinerantzi  

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