Appointments

Professor Ian Parkin
Chair of Applied Clinical Anatomy

Professor Parkin has been appointed the newly created position of Chair of Applied Clinical Anatomy. The post was created primarily to address the increasing concern that doctors are emerging from medical curricula with knowledge of anatomy that is inadequate for safe, efficient and confident practice. The aim is to ensure a continuum of anatomical education from the very start of the medical course, through the clinical years and extending into postgraduate training. The University of Dundee is the first to recognise the need for this innovative approach and has created the post in conjunction with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Professor Parkin was previously a Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine at Robinson College in Cambridge. His research interests include curriculum develop and evaluation and dissection to study human anatomical variation and topography appropriate to new clinical techniques including endoscopy and imaging.

Some current projects include writing The Core Atlas of Anatomy with co-author Bari M. Logan, and a digital dissector guide to human regional anatomy with Spanish colleagues.

The Core Atlas of Anatomy with co-author, Bari M. Logan, Prosector

A digital dissector guide to Human Regional Anatomy with Spanish colleagues, J R Sanudo and M T Vazquez

Professor Mike Press
Chair of Design Policy

Professor Mike Press has been appointed Chair of Design Policy within the Faculty of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Prior to this he was Head of Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

He has written and researched widely on design, innovation, contemporary craft and the management of creativity, speaking at conferences worldwide. An extensive publishing record includes authorship of three books, including "The Design Agenda: a guide to successful design management" and "The Design Experience". He is also a contributor to BBC television and radio programmes on design.

He was joint director of the Home Office funded Design Against Crime research project from 1999. In January 2005 was the subject of a profile in The Guardian regarding his views on how design can contribute to crime prevention.

He was a member of the selection panel for the Design Council's Millennium Products, and has been shortlisted for the Sir Misha Black Medal for Innovation in Design Education. He is a former Chair of the European Academy of Design, and a member of the editorial board of The Design Journal. Most recently he has been the initiator and Creative Director for Look 2005 - Aberdeen's first visual arts festival.

A frustrated desire to host his own radio show was partly satisfied last October when he was asked to make a short piece on the music of Bob Dylan for BBC Radio Scotland.

Professor Gavin Renwick
Chair of Art and Policy

Professor Renwick was the first candidate to gain a Ph.D. at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, then progress thought an A.H.R.B. post-doctorate fellowship, to a chair. His ambitions for this post, beyond present commitments, include helping to develop the VRC to be an internationally recognised location for visual research, including developing an annex of the VRC in Canada. He will also work towards gaining major funding for his emerging research and Ph.D. grouping. This interdisciplinary Scottish and Canadian team will act as cultural intermediaries, using practice-led research to facilitate cultural continuity while affecting policy that enables sustainable development within indigenous communities.

Gavin's work bridges art and architecture, research and practice. For the last 20 years he has taught in and worked through architecture, interior design, fine art and museology. His M.A. was undertaken at the Royal College of Art, London, and was supported by the prestigious Darwin Scholarship. He has worked across Europe, as well as in Turkey and Canada, and utilises practice-led methods that honours both visual research and the parity of indigenous and First Nation traditional knowledge.

For the last decade he has been working between Scotland and the Canadian Northwest Territories, most recently for the Tlicho (formely Dogrib) Dene community of Gameti as founder and coordinator of Gameti Ko, an incorporated society directed by a board of elders.