who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords Ph.D. programme,
curriculum aims and intention,
research skills development
Tiiu Poldma
Universite de Montreal, School of
Industrial Design. Faculty of
Environmental Planning, CP 6168,
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada
Keywords artful visual analysis,
qualitative research methods, artbased
research, phenomenology and
design
Sinikka Hannele Pöllänen
University of Eastern Finland, School
of Applied Educational Science and
Teacher Education, Finland
Keywords craft science, craft and
wellbeing, craft in special education
Alex Pollard
c/o Sorcha Dallas, 5–9 St Margaret’s
Place, Glasgow, G1 5JY, United
Kingdom
Keywords samizdat, zine, selfpublishing
› Re-orienting Ph.D. education in industrial design: some issues arising from
the experience of a Ph.D. programme revision, Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 1.3, 173-194.
Tiiu Poldma has practised interior design for over twenty years and is
currently assistant professor in the Interior Design programme within
the School of Industrial Design at the University of Montreal. Her
research interests include interior design pedagogical processes, visual
representation methods in qualitative methodology, and how design
considerations are essential in everyday human experiences. She has
just completed her Ph.D. where she investigated the phenomenological
student experiences in an interior design class.
› Understanding the value of artistic tools such as visual concept maps in
design and education research, Art, Design & Communication in Higher
Education, 3.3, 141-148.
Sinikka Pöllänen is a Professor of Craft Science in craft teacher
education at the University of Eastern Finland. Her major research
areas include craft as a substance of learning and teaching, craft and
well-being and craft in special education.
› Beyond craft and art: A pedagogical model for craft as self-expression,
International Journal of Education through Art, 7.2, 111-125.
Alex Pollard is an artist based in Glasgow and contributing co-editor of
Radical Vans and Carriages. He graduated with a BA in Painting from
Glasgow School of Art in 1999 before serving on Glasgow’s
Transmission Gallery committee between 2000 and 2002. He
represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Solo shows have
included The Reliance, London (Disintegrating Hand and Other
Works), Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow (Torch Sculptures), Talbot Rice
Gallery, Edinburgh (Black Marks) and Whitechapel Project Space
(Tea-Leaf Demeanour) and The Dirty Hands (with Clare Stephenson,
CCA, Glasgow). Pollard is a lecturer in Fine Art Painting and
Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and is represented by Sorcha
Dallas, Glasgow.