University for the Creative Arts - HOUGHTON Dr Nicholas

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Dr Nicholas Houghton joined UCA in 2011 as an academic developer and now teaches across the suite of creative arts education courses.

Before this, he had been working as a course director at University of the Arts London, responsible for the PGCert and PGDip in Teaching in HE and a SEDA accredited course on supervising research degrees.

Nicholas studied fine art at Wimbledon School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). After teaching at NSCAD, he enrolled on a French immersion course at College Olivar Asselin in Montreal and proceeded to teach art at L’Université du Québec a Chicoutimi.

Since then, he has worked as a teacher, researcher and manager at many higher education institutions in the UK, Portugal and Belgium. He completed a Crafts Council funded PhD at Roehampton in 1999.

Further information:
Nicholas Houghton website

Contact
nhoughton@uca.ac.uk

Nicholas has undertaken four main kinds of research. He has investigated post-compulsory art, craft and design education, with a particular emphasis on the curriculum, assessment and craft theory. He has also worked in a team which developed social science research methods.

He has undertaken research for various organisations, including the Arts Council of England, the Crafts Council, engage (the National Assocaion for Gallery Education), Kingston University, QAA, LTN, the UK government and the Learning and Skills Development Agency. In addition, he undertakes research through his own art practice. Recent publications have concentrated on the history of the art school and in particular the art & design curriculum.

He has presented at numerous international conferences and given the keynote address at conferences in Turkey, England, Portugal and Korea.

Nicholas has supervised two PhD and numerous MA students who investigated aspects of arts education.

Professional Membership, Affiliation and Consultancy:

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 1999 (then called the Institute for Learning and Teaching in HE), now a Senior Fellow (2015).

Member of the National Association for Fine Art Education, the National Society for Education in Art and Design and the International Society for Education through Art.

Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Education through Art (since 2015) and has been a reviewer for other arts education journals.

Nicholas worked as an educational consultant at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and Falmouth University. In addition he delivered the Commencement Address at NSCAD University’s graduation ceremony in 2012.

External examination:

Nicholas has examined PhD research degrees at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Huddersfield.

Awards, Grants and Commissions:

2016 Art awards - Art Language Location, Cambridge
2007 Research commissions - engage (The National Association for Gallery Education) - Research into gallery education programmes
2007 Arts Council of England - Visual Artists Research Unit
2005 Crafts Council - Research into the educational benefits of craft
2004 Kingston University - Research into the creative industries

Dr Nicholas Houghton

Lecturer (Learning and Teaching), UCA Epsom

Academic, School of Further Education

Research Statement

Research Supervision

Professional Membership, Affiliation and Consultancy

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