Dr Andrew Lennon
Prior to joining the Interior Architecture and Design team, Andrew worked as a cross-faculty Lecturer at BCU. From this and other positions, Andrew brings experience of interdisciplinary and performative pedagogies to his role as Level 4 Deputy Year Lead. His teaching focuses on building strong community bonds between students to support a sense of belonging from the beginning of each student’s time at BCU.
Building on over two decades of educational and professional work in theatre, performance and events in the UK and Ireland, specifically in performance design with a focus on lighting and staging, Andrew’s diverse experience informs his teaching through the exploration of varied career trajectories that exist for student development. His approach to student learning is expansive, as he brings a range of cross-pollinating disciplines into proximity, working with students to explore how performance, film, and immersive installations can combine to produce exciting and stimulating projects for investigation.
Having taught in the theatre departments of both Birmingham University and the University of Gloucester, Andrew has experience across a range of different levels and teaching scenarios, from studio-based workshops to seminars and lectures. During his time at BCU, he has developed a range of performative problem-solving workshops that are person-centred and enable students to put into action their knowledge and skills via scenario-based learning. Such approaches support students to be employment ready because fundamental subject knowledge is developed and demonstrated through professional aptitudes such as teamwork, communication, and critical thinking. The foundational value of such transferable skills is fundamental to Andrew’s teaching approach.
With a research profile focused on performance, politics, film and creative industries, Andrew’s professional and academic experience, alongside the broad network of BCU communities he has worked with, enable him to support students across a range of areas of interest, as well as offer diverse ways in which to help students empathetically connect their ideas with real-world impact.