who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Keywords assessment, creativity,
quality assurance, thinking
Donna J. Cox
Keywords metaphor, mapping,
astrophysics, virtual reality, postcolonial
M. James C. Crabbe
University of Bedfordshire, Faculty of
Creative Arts, Technologies and
Science, Park Square, Luton, LU1
3JU, United Kingdom
Keywords media, interdisciplinarity,
cross-cultural, ceramics
innovative and internationally acclaimed problem-based, integrated and
research-based learning approaches in the B.Arch. programme at the
University of Newcastle, Australia, for which he earned the
University’s Teaching Excellence Award. Cowdroy’s basic research
focus is on the psychological processes of inspiration and related forms
of high-level creativity and elite decision processes. For this research
he developed empirical methods from psychology and psychiatry for
tracking unconscious thinking and inspiration which are central to
high-level creativity. His applied research is in new approaches to
assessment of high-level creativity and decision-making and the
particular case of the ‘brilliant student’ in higher education.
› Assessing creativity in the creative arts, Art, Design & Communication in
Higher Education, 5.2, 97-118.
Donna J. Cox is a recognized pioneer in computer art and scientific
visualization. Since 1985, she has been a professor in the School of Art
and Design and research artist/scientist at the National Centre for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her collaborative works have
been featured in art and science museums, PBS television productions,
planetaria, and IMAX theatres around the world, and she has authored
many papers on scientific visualization, critical theory, and information
design.
› The Art and Science of Visualization: Metaphorical Maps and Cultural
Models, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 2.2, 71-80.
Professor M. James C. Crabbe is Executive Dean of the Faculty of
Creative Arts, Technologies and Science at the University of
Bedfordshire. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College,
Oxford University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading,
at Beijing Normal University (BNU) and at the International Business
Faculty of BNU in Zhuhai in China. He is a member of Arts Interlink,
the international arts management consultancy, and in 2008 was a
winner of a Great Contributors to China Creative Industries Award.
› Linking the ceramic industry, creativity and education in Jingdezhen, China:
Given at the First British Ceramics Biennial Conference Artists into Industry
at the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, October 2009, Creative
Industries Journal, 2.3, 305-311.