James Brocklehurst

Academic profile

Mr James Brocklehurst

Associate Head of School - Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions
School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. James's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality Education

About James


James is Associate Head – Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions, for the School of Art, Design and Architecture, and subject lecturer for the BA(Hons) Graphic Design With Typography and MA Communication Design programmes. He is a practitioner and researcher within the field of graphic design for interactive media.

Teaching

James' teaching centers on understanding graphic communication concepts and processes, as applied to a range of media. His area of specialism is graphic design for digital interactive media.
He managed the BA(Hons) Graphic Design with Typography programme at the University of Plymouth for eight years, lectured on the BA(Hons) Illustration and MA Publishing programmes, and has experience of writing and managing higher education art and design programmes for the Open University, the University of Brighton and South Devon College. He has helped students win a number of international design awards, including the D&AD New Blood Awards, the YCN Student Awards and the ISTD Student Assessment Scheme. James' students have had their work showcased in Computer Arts Magazine and Creative Review, and have, upon graduation, gone on to work for some of the world's leading creative agencies, including Leo Burnett, M&C Saatchi and Jones Knowles Ritchie.
Live student design projects that James has coordinated include those run in collaboration with House of Fraser, IBM, Skint Records, The Met Office, It's Nice That, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and the English Riviera Global Geopark.

Contact James

Room 701b, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585268