Professor Simon Grennan
Professor
Biography
Dr Simon Grennan is Professor of Art and Design and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at the University of Chester, UK. He provides strategic leadership support to the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation and Executive Dean, to shape, implement and deliver the University's Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategy and relevant Key Performance Indicators, including the Research Excellence Framework and Knowledge Exchange Framework and Postgraduate Research provision. Professor Grennan is an internationally active research scholar, securing external academic and public funding and outputting with a wide range of partners. He teaches, supervises and, since 1990, has co-directed a commercial visual arts studio.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Grennan supervises and examines a wide range of postgraduate research and taught degrees as senior supervisor and supervisor. He has co-written, delivers and examines undergraduate modules across Visual Arts, Design and English.
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Professor Grennan undertakes visual narrative research and knowledge exchange in three related areas: theory, history and practice. He has particular interests in the global experiences and histories of drawing, comic strips and comic strip genres, nineteenth-century and post-colonial word-and-image and periodical publishing.