NICKY BIRD

Education

1994-1999PhD in Fine Art (Practice & Theory), University of Leeds

Getting in on the Act: Art Practice, Found Photographs and the Retrieval of Meaning

1992-1993MA in Feminism & the Visual Arts, University of Leeds (Distinction Awarded)

1979-1982BA (Hons.) Fine Art (Painting), Bristol Polytechnic (2:1 Awarded)

Academic Experience (Teaching & Supervision)

2006-PhD Coordinator for Design, Fine Art, Historical & Critical Studies (0.5)

Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Academic responsibilities include working on all aspects of GSA’s research degrees across three schools: recruitment, selection, admission; teaching on generic research degrees training programme; advising on supervisory matters; submissions, completions and management of vivas; Director of Studies (2 PhD students in Fine Art Photography; 1 completion) and Second Supervisor duties (1 completion); Module Tutor, The Practice of Research, & Supervisor for MRES in Creative Practices

2009-External Supervisor, Highland & Islands/University of Aberdeen

2005-2007External Supervisor, PhD in Studio Practice, University of Leeds, Leeds

1997-2006Associate Senior Lecturer (0.5), School of Arts & Social Sciences,

Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Responsible for Practice & Critical Theory Programmes on BA Contemporary Photographic Practice at Level 5: Modules Photography in the Public Domain: Collaborative Practices: Introduction to Critical Theory 1& 2; Coordination of Level 5; Level 4: Introductory Programmes including seminars, technical workshops, and conceptual issues.

Supervisor, PhD programme in Fine Art:

Henna Asikainen Environmental Aesthetics 2004

Silvana Macedo-Lamb From Fine Art to Natural Science through Allegory 2003

1997Lecturer, BA Visual Cultures, University of Derby

Academic Experience (PhD Examination)

2011External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, Newcastle University, Newcastle

External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art:

Candidate under resubmission

2008Internal Examiner, PhD in Historical & Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art:

David Sweeney Life in the Multiverse: Fictional Worlds, Territorialization and the Reality of Fiction

2006 (2007)External Examiner, PhD in Fine Art, University of Leeds, Leeds:

John Crossley Artifactuality and Actuality - Visual Representation and the Production of Truth in Art and the News Media

External Examiner, PhD in Art History, University of Ulster, Belfast:

Louise Wallace Painting the Peripheral: A Reconsideration of the Feminine in the Late Interiors of Pierre Bonnard

Academic Experience (External Examination)

2009-2012External Examiner, School of History &Theory of Fine Art

Slade School of Art

2009-2011External Examiner, BA (Hons.)Photography

Southampton Solent University, Southampton

2006-2009External Examiner, Critical Theory, BA (Hons.) Fine Art

University of Central England, Birmingham

2005-2008External Examiner, BA (Hons.) Fine Art

Arts Institute of Bournemouth, Poole

2002-2005External Examiner, MA in Feminism & Visual Arts (Feminist Theories & Practice)

University of Leeds, Leeds

1997-2000External Examiner, BA Subject Applied Photographic Practice

University of Central Lancashire, Preston

Selected Conferences & Talks

2010Speaker, Transmission: Hospitality, Sheffield Hallam University

2009Guest Speaker, Framing Time & Place: Repeats & Returns in Photography,

University of Plymouth, Plymouth

2003Guest Speaker, ‘On A Portrait: The Aesthetic & Social World of Julia Margaret Cameron,’ National Museum of Photography, Film & TV, Bradford

1998Conference Convenor, Site Gallery, Sheffield: ‘Playing Detective: Facts, Fictions & the work of Sophie Calle.’ Speakers included Mark Durden, Hilary Robinson & Irit Rogoff

1997Conference Convenor, Site Gallery, Sheffield: ‘I can’t explain it all myself’

Speakers included Art Historians Fred Orton & Rosemary Betterton; artists Olivier Richon, Karen Knorr, Bernard Prinz & Dany Leriche

Other relevant professional experience

2011Peer Reviewer, Photographies, Routledge

2007Consultant Artist, Curatorial Advisory Group, Belsay Hall, English Heritage

2006-07Panel Member, Edinburgh Visual Arts and Crafts Awards

2003Lead Artist, Below Stairs at Newhailes, National Trust of Scotland & National Galleries of Scotland partnership project

1998-2009Reviewer, Art Monthly

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