Bruce Brown is Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art in London. Previously he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Brighton, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Design. Hewas selected by the Funding Councils for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to chair the Main Panel responsible for Arts and Humanities in the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014. He recently has worked for organisations in Austria, Portugal, Hong Kong and Israel and lectured widely on research in the arts. He is an editor of Design issue  and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. [Photography]