Programme Leader for FdSc Media Production
Biography
As a practitioner with over 30 years of creative media experience Phil has worked in the commercial sector all over the world, in countries as far afield and culturally diverse as Australia, Senegal and Oman. A passionate and committed educator, he teaches across multi-disciplines within Art and Design and previously taught at Southport College before joining University Centre St Helens. He is also an accomplished multi-media artist in his own right and has had many pieces of published work including photographic art exhibited by Chester Art Centre.
Qualifications
- FdSc New Media & Design Technology - University of Central Lancashire
- BSc Interactive Digital Media - University of Central Lancashire
- PGCE Post Graduate Certificate in Education - (UCLan)
- MA Creative Thinking - University of Central Lancashire
Research interests
- How creativity and divergent thinking can impact and affect creative design teams.
For his MA, he is researching the Psychology of creative teamwork; How design teams within the games industry can be stimulated by both unstructured brainstorming processes and by structured processes (lateral thinking). How or what exactly influences, encourages or discourages ideation within a creative design team?
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Typology as a communicative, revelatory platform.
A recent visit to Sydney provided the inspiration behind his current lens-based typology.
‘An Observational Study of Sydney Harbour Bridge’.Phil has produced a photographic assemblage based around a cultural icon of the built environment; finding patterns, both visual and intellectual that resonate and reveal information not apparent in isolation, but visible only in contextual groupings; the closer you look, the more you see.