Role
Chair of FoA School Teaching and Learning Committees
Chair Faculty Equality and Diversity committee.
University Roles:
Member of UoP External Examiners sub-committee
Member of UPC Faculty Board
Formation Zone Board member
UPmedia
Qualifications & background
BA (IST Class )Hons. Fine Art Sculpture (with special commendation in Art History) 1977 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design.
Higher Diploma in Fine Art -HDFA 1980 (Slade School) University College London
Teaching interests
Supervision of contextual/theoretical study in support of studio practice.
Research interests
Understanding the changing drivers behind Cultural regeneration.
Questioning why the prevailing "Culture of Limits" holds sway.
Exploring the tensions between human agency and shifting concepts of vicitimhood.
Resisting therapy as Education.
Championing Art for Arts sake.
Supporting the http://thedisputables.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/welcome-to-the-disputables/
UoP Research group membership
Centre for Culture, Community and Society (CCCS)
Culture, Theory, Space
Additional information
Links
Faculty of Arts,Teaching and Learning Briefing
http://tlbriefing.blogspot.co.uk/
MA Publishing programme
http://www.mapublishing.co.uk
University of Plymouth Press
http://www.uppress.co.uk
Academics For Academic Freedom - AFAF National on-line statement of academic freedom for university lecturers
http://www.afaf.org.uk/blog/_archives/2006/10/24/2442478.html
Supporter of BIG POTATOES
http://www.bigpotatoes.org/
Supporter of http://uklibertyleague.org/
http://plymouth.academia.edu/colinsearls
