Jonathan Shaw

Birmingham City University

University of the West of England

Director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University

Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom

In addition to the continuation of my photographic practice, my primary focus in my Professorial conferment is to advance, alongside the senior leadership team, the evolution of the field of creative practice within the context of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the wider University Research Leadership community.

Coventry University

Professor of Photography and Media

BIRMINGHAM OPEN MEDIA COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Chair Of The Board Of Directors

To provide strategic direction, leadership and management of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), a new cross-University experimental unit, whose purpose is to offer leadership, pedagogic development and safe spaces for experimentation; to enable innovation through (and in response to) disruptive technologies within Higher Education generally and Coventry University specifically.  The key strategic aims of the DMLL are as follows:•	The over-arching aim of the DMLL is to provide a focal point and the resources and frameworks necessary to enable Coventry University to make itself ready for the teaching and learning environments of the 21st Century.•	THE DMLL will both lead, and support, innovation and experimentation in teaching and learning in Coventry University, offering thought leadership, insight and development specifically in response to the effects of disruptive media in the HE sector.•	To explore, experiment with, research and re-define particular new technologies platforms and applications which can inform support and enhance the University's teaching and learning.•	Act as a focal point and provide support for experimentation and collaborations to engender new partnerships across the Faculties, Institutes and Centres across the university and commercially.•	To instigate the transformation of existing University teaching and learning practices, structures and models. Work with appropriate University partners to strategically explore the commercial potential of DMLL projects.

Director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab

The Photographers' Gallery London

Trustee

The role of the academic board is to oversee the academic governance of the College. In particular, I was approached to provide an international perspective both on the changes facing contemporary photography and the higher education landscape but also to offer guidance and for the support and implementation of pedagogic innovation.PSC is a leading provider of specialist photographic higher education, consecutively winning the Photography Institute of the Year by Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) since 2010. In 2016, they were also proud winners of the Student of the Year award. They achieved the highest score across Australia for the Creative Arts, out performing all other institutions that offer Creative Arts courses in Australia's latest Student Experience Survey (SES) as part of the National Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT).

Photography Studies College (Melbourne)

International Academic Board Member

To support and enhance CEMP’s research and innovation activities in the field of open education and digital learning environments.To be an advocate for excellence in digital/open/online/interdisciplinary pedagogies as a representative of CEMP.

Centre for Excellence in Media Practice

Visiting Professor

Jonathan's photographic practice explores the representation of time and movement in, and through, photography. It can be seen as part of a long tradition of experimentation whereby the camera becomes both an instrument of scientific record and a tool for aesthetic exploration. In Maarten Vanvolsem's book "The Art of Strip Photography" his practice has been described as being part of an early generation of artists who are responsible for the emergence of a new school of photography which blurs the boundaries between the still and moving image.

Jonathan Shaw Photography

Freelance Photographer

I was the elected Chair of the Association for Photography in Higher Education.  The Association exists to support and to develop the study of photography within Higher Education. It is committed to excellence in practice, theory and research and provides a critical forum within which to discuss and debate a broad range of matters relevant to contemporary photographic culture and educational practice, and to reflect upon what is viewed as best practice within these debates.The Association acts as the representative body for those associated with photography in higher education and formulates policy and strategy with regard to representing the views of the HE sector to other appropriate organisations and government bodies.Alongside my fellow executive committee members (Richard Mulhearn, Linda Marchant and Judy Harrison and latterly Andrew Robinson), we were able to transform and grow the membership of the Association into a thriving hub of awards, bursaries and a range of activities with HE and cultural institutions. Importantly, we established firm links across the UK with the Council for Higher Education (CHEAD) and America with formation of a key exchange partnership with the Society for Photographic Education (SPE). A further selection of exciting new initiatives were under development and are progressing with the new Executive committee leadership of Associate Professor Simon Standing and Dr Liam Devlin. <a href="http://aphe.ac.uk">http://aphe.ac.uk</a>

Association for Photography in Higher Education

Chair

To jointly provide strategic direction, leadership and management of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), a new cross-University experimental unit, whose purpose is to offer leadership, pedagogic development and safe spaces for experimentation; to enable innovation through (and in response to) disruptive technologies within Higher Education generally and Coventry University specifically.  The key strategic aims of the DMLL are as follows:•	The over-arching aim of the DMLL is to provide a focal point and the resources and frameworks necessary to enable Coventry University to make itself ready for the teaching and learning environments of the 21st Century.•	THE DMLL will both lead, and support, innovation and experimentation in teaching and learning in Coventry University, offering thought leadership, insight and development specifically in response to the effects of disruptive media in the HE sector.•	To explore, experiment with, research and re-define particular new technologies platforms and applications which can inform support and enhance the University's teaching and learning.•	Act as a focal point and provide support for experimentation and collaborations to engender new partnerships across the Faculties, Institutes and Centres across the university and commercially.•	To instigate the transformation of existing University teaching and learning practices, structures and models. Work with appropriate University partners to strategically explore the commercial potential of DMLL projects.

Co-Director of Disruptive Media Learning Lab

As an Adobe Education Leader, Jonathan forms part of their worldwide community championing creativity in education.

Adobe

Adobe Education Leader

- Leadership role for the development of media innovation and the use of technologies and facilities•	Development of internal and external innovation partnerships and relationships (national and international, professional and academic)•	Development of the departmental profile, brand, communications and publicity •	Applied Research in creative practice including, CPD (Continuing Professional Development), REF (Research Excellence Framework) and income generation

Associate Head (Innovation, Profile and Research), Department of Media

During this period I was responsible for some of the most significant innovations within the departments undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum, with the department's external examiners citing them as best practice in the UK Higher Education sector and how well positioned the programmes are for the current market place. I was invited to present to the Times Higher Education Award Panel about the initiatives and impact of the departmental open classes, which formed part of the University's winning entry to the Entrepreneurial University of the Year Award 2011.Together with Shaun Hides, Head of Department, I led the department's strategy for 2012, specifically the development of the ‘mobile learning technology package’ which we believe enables us to present ourselves as the UK’s first Department of Media to go mobile.I was jointly responsible for the successful pitch for circa. half a million pounds to refurbish the Media building in preparation for our one to one 'mobile' scheme. I led and delivered the redevelopment which provided our students with contemporary, flexible, open and aspirational spaces within which to learn and work.Between 2009-2012 the department's league table position improved by 17 points from near the bottom to a creditable 14th as a subject for New Universities.