Professor Paul Moore

National Teaching Fellow 2014 Having worked as a senior manager in the further education sector, Professor Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999 and has since been active in the development of the creative arts/industries work in the University. He was awarded a personal chair in 2009 becoming Professor of Creative Technology, is Director of the Research Centre for Creative Technologies (RCCT), and chairs the Universitys Information Technologies Strategy Steering Group (ITSSG). Paul was the Northern Ireland Content Board member at Ofcom 2007-12, was a member of the governments Digital Economy Working Group in 2010 and has also served as a Board member of the NI Film and Television Commission (now NI Screen). He is a member of a number of journal editorial boards and contributed to the development of the Digital Dialogues strand for the 2013 Derry UK City of Culture programme. His research is focused on the creative industries and their place in 21st century higher education, social technologies and digital literacy, and the ways in which theory and practice can be brought together in the field of digital arts. Paul has published widely in a range of journals/books and his creative work has been exhibited in a number of commissioned gallery exhibitions in London, Coventry, Belfast, Derry, Lough Neagh, and the National Gallery of Namibia. Internationally Paul's consultancy work in the creative industries has been based largely in South Africa and Namibia, assisting in the development of creative learning hubs. He has fronted a number of creative arts training initiatives in Namibia sponsored by the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa. He was a visiting professor at CityVarsity College in Cape Town and was an honorary research fellow with the University of Coventry. Paul also chaired the NI Media Literacy Hub and, in collaboration with Ofcom Belfast, wrote the Digital Participation Plan for NI which was launched in March 2010. In his spare time he is a freelance broadcaster with BBC Radio Ulster and has written and presented a range of documentaries for BBC national radio.