International Conferences on
Learning and Teaching with Technology
in Art Design and Communication
DeL Sept 2007: speakers: Michael Pickard
Michael Pickard
BSc. BA(Hons). MA(Disttn)
Research Fellow
University of Sunderland
Biography:
Michael Pickard studied engineering at London University and Business Studies at the Geneva Business School in the course of a lifetime career in industry. This included working in a variety of managerial roles starting out as a design engineer and ultimately working as an overseas business director for an international company with world wide interests. He has worked in a diverse range of countries as far afield as Russia, the Indian subcontinent and the United States but has always maintained an enduring interest in art and design.
More recently, he returned to the academic life, in order to take a BA and MA in design, multimedia and graphics and is now a Research Fellow at Sunderland University where he lectures and conducts research in design related topics. The current research being undertaken is part of a larger project at the University concerned with making better connections between the visual sciences and art and design practice. The overall objective of this is to find ways of bridging the gap between the visual sciences and the visual arts so as to provide the basis for an educational approach to equip students with new knowledge about vision that can be useful in their creative work. He is a committed countryman with many interests now living on the North Yorkshire Moors and London.
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