Design
To contact any of the Design experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Chris Blade |
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| Job title | Senior Manager National Glass Centre |
| Faculty | Business and Law |
| Areas of expertise | Contemporary glass, glass manufacture, glass making practices & processes within the craft/art industry, prototyping glass for small scale production, studio glass |
| Name | Tim Brennan |
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| Job title | Head of Department, Art & Design |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | The Jarrow Crusade of 1936, contemporary art, emerging artists, curating art, performance art, public art and art in the community, sociology and art, guided walks, the North East, Anglo Saxon culture, mining |
| Name | Melanie Hani |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Design |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Animation, film and design |
| Name | Manny Ling |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Design |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Calligraphy and lettering arts, typography, type design, editorial design, graphic design, branding, curator of exhibitions and symposium, running creativity workshops with children and the community |
| Name | Prof Kevin Petrie |
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| Job title | Professor of Glass and Ceramics |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Glass, ceramics, printmaking for glass and ceramics, research and PhDs in art and design, teaching in art and design |
| Name | Prof Sylva Petrova |
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| Job title | Director, Institute for International Research in Glass |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | History of art in glass, contemporary art glass production, modern Czech glass |
| Name | Rob Winter |
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| Job title | Technician |
| Faculty | Arts, Design and Media |
| Areas of expertise | Glass and ceramics expertise, all aspects of ceramics including making skills, materials technology, and design, teaching ceramics at all levels, mould making for glass and ceramics, designing ceramics and glass for developing world producers, Fairtrade, community arts |
