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 and 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:
2017 Associate Head of School - Enterprise, Plymouth University
2011 Associate Professor 3D Design, Plymouth University
2011 Guest Professor, Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2009 Award Leader MA Design - Contemporary Designer Maker, Plymouth University
2006 Award Leader 3D Design BA (Hons) - Designer Maker, Plymouth University
1999 Lecturer in Design - Designer Maker (0.75), Plymouth University
Representative:
NACHE- National Association of Ceramics in Higher Education (University representative)
CHEAD - Council Higher Education in Art & Design
ADM-HEA - Member of the Higher Education Academy
CAN - Craft Action Network
GLAD - Group for Learning in Art & Design
DRN - Drawing Research Network
Linked information:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pollymacpherson
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/plmacpherson
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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