Speaker

Speaker

Trevor Keeble

University of Portsmouth

University of Portsmouth Executive Dean, Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

Speaker Biography

Prior to joining the University of Portsmouth as Dean of Creative & Cultural Industries and Professor of Design, Trevor was Executive Dean (Learning, Teaching & Research) at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. Prior to this he held a number of positions in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University, London. These included Head of the School of Art & Design History, and Associate Dean (Academic).

Trevor studied practice-based art & design at Portsmouth College of Art & Design. This led him to study for a BA(Hons) Interior Architecture at the University of Brighton. With the support of the Oliver Ford Scholarship, he then studied on the MA History of Design programme run jointly by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Royal College of Art. Trevor was awarded a PhD, for a thesis entitled The Domestic Moment: Design, Taste & Identity in the Late Victorian Interior, by the Royal College of Art in 2005.