Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of Design at the University of Brighton. For twenty years previously he was Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts & Architecture. Recently he was appointed by the Funding Councils for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to lead the quality assessment of arts and humanities research produced by UK universities for the Research Excellence Framework [REF2014]. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and has advised international organizations including the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation and the Qatar National Research Fund. He chaired the Portuguese Government’s Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia Research Grants Panel [Arts] and was one of four people invited by the Portuguese Government to conduct an international review entitled Reforming Arts and Culture Higher Education in Portugal. He has served as Trustee and Governor of organizations such as the Art’s Council for England’s South East Arts Board, the Ditchling Museum and Shenkar College of Design and Engineering, Tel Aviv. He is Editor of Design Issues Research Journal (MIT). Before joining higher education he worked as a designer being art director of CRAFTS for the Crafts Council UK. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1970.