Robert Gibb
As Senior Lecturer, Robert teaches across a range of subjects, with specialist areas including Photography, Fine Art, Curation, and Art & Design history.
Current Activity
As Associate Professor for International, Robert has taught and continues to teach Conceptual Thinking, Design Philosophies and Innovation & Design as Visual Communication at overseas Institute partners, and guest lectures internationally at leading universities in a number of countries, including China, Thailand, India and Vietnam.
Areas of Expertise
- Photography – Commercial, Fine Art and Conceptual
- Exhibition curator and project organizer
- Artist
- Curriculum development at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice (BCU)
- Certificate in Professional Studies in Continuing Education and Development (UCE)
- Master of Design (Edinburgh - Herriot-Watt)
- BA (hons) – Photography (Edinburgh - Herriot-Watt)
- HND – Design for Print & Graphic Design (Glasgow College of Building & Printing)
Memberships
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts
- Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of The Association for Photography in Higher Education
Teaching
At postgraduate level Robert teaches within the areas of Conceptual Thinking, Design Philosophies and Innovation & Design as Visual Communication.
Robert occasionally teaches on undergraduate programmes within the area of photography, and also delivers lecturers to undergraduate students including ‘Appropriation & Connectivity’, ‘The Use of Narratives in Western Fashion & Advertising’ and ‘The Power of Flesh’.
Research
Roberts main areas of research interest include the visual and cultural representations of Myths, Religion, Sex and Death.
These have driven his exhibitions and curatorial practice.
Postgraduate Supervision
Robert teaches on the current Visual Communication postgraduate programme, which he continues to develop using his pedagogical understandings and creative thinking strategies, in order to fully engage students using dialogue, discussion and debate.
Publications
Paper – “The Power of Flesh - From Beefcake to Billboard” – Visiting the Americans Symposium – 2011
Co-Editor Catalogue - “Corpus Queer” – Del LaGrace Volcano Retrospective - Shout Festival 2009
Paper - “The Democratised Image” - Third International Art Conference on THE ARTS IN SOCIETY – 2008