Peter Quinn Davis

Associate Head of School ADA 

Peter works within the school of ADA  - Art, Design and Architecture and Music, Theatre and Performance.

He is part of the leadership group who managers internationally acclaimed practitioners who teach across the creative disciplines.

With an extensive career working in Art and Design Higher Education, Peter’s experience covers the delivery, development, validation and examination of courses from Undergraduate to Masters and through to PhD level. He works with students at local, national and international level, through to research activity, as well as connecting with local and national organisations through the Knowledge Exchange network.

Within the School of ADA, Peter coordinates the Design Knowledge Research area with Message and iDAT.

Member of the Higher Education Academy, Design History Journal, Design Society, Design Research, Writing Pads, RCA Alum, Learning Institute, Fellow of Royal Society of Arts, Group for Learning in Art and Design, Research Drawing Network, RSA, Craft Action Network, European Academy of Design and DRS. InnovateUK and NCACE. UK Universities International and Cumulus and ELIA networks.

Peter has completed many supervisions for MRes students, Post Graduate Design students and has completions for PhD's, in the areas of design identities, the post-human, place-making through heritage, visualising new paradigms.

Broad teaching interests are within the arts, digital practice, sustainability and social regenerative areas. Using design and art as a creative force for positive outcomes and change. Peter has further interests in innovation through teaching and regeneration through art, architecture and design. Since receiving research funding through the South West Creative Technology Partnership, Peters research informed teaching has developed to include 'material data' data collected through digital scanning and fabrication, particularly focused on place-making and digital heritage.