Professional Engagement & Academic
Professional Engagement:
2017 Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
Category judge - BBC Woman’s Hour, Victoria and
Albert Museum and
Crafts Council’s Crafts prize
Key note presentation 1st China Crafts week, Hangzhou China
Creative Lead - PU Port Eliot Festival
2016 Creative Lead - Creative Industries
Hole and Corner Magazine, London Craft Week 2016, Marvellous Mechanica at
The House of St Barnaba https://vimeo.com/169845176
Port Eliot Festival https://vimeo.com/183234760
2015 Creative Lead - Creative Industries / PU Port Eliot Festival
2014 Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
Abstract peer reviewer for ‘All Makers Now?’ Conference July'14 Falmouth Uni.
2014+ External Examiner - Cardiff Met. (CSAD) BA (hons) Artist Designer Maker
2013 External Examiner - Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore:
BA(hons) Fine Art, Graphic Design & 3D Design New Practice.
2012-15 Chair Peninsular Arts Gallery Programming & Advisory Group, Plymouth
2012-17 External Examiner - University of Ulster, MFA Multidisciplinary Design
2012+16 External Examiner - Liverpool Hope University, BA Design
2011-13 External Examiner for Loughborough Uni.: BA (hons) 3D Design New
Practice
2011 UPC/University Link Academic Advisor to the FDA Ceramics, Cornwall
College and Petroc College, North Devon
2009 External Expert/Assessor Quinquennial Review,
B.A. (Hons) Blacksmithing & BA (Hons) Contemporary Applied Arts
Hereford College of Art, University of Wales
Academic:
- Associate Head of School - Enterprise, Plymouth University
- Associate Professor 3D Design, Plymouth University
- Guest Professor, Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Award Leader MA Design - Contemporary Designer Maker, Plymouth Uni.
- Lead academic authoring MA Contemporary Designer Maker
to be part of the
new MA Design award
- Award Leader 3D Design BA (Hons) - Designer Maker, Plymouth Uni.
- Lecturer in Design - Designer Maker (0.75), Plymouth University
Representative:
National Association of Ceramics in Higher
Education
Council Higher Education in Art & Design
Linked information:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollymacpherson
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/plmacpherson
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school-of-art-design-and-architecture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/58MxNsfh9jDghnB1G3x7SS/the-woman-s-hour-craft-prize-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52YlFddw_y0
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/your-university/peninsula-arts
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