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Teaching

Susan Stockwell’s teaching experience is extensive. Her present teaching post is as part-time Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts at the University of East London. She continues to work as a Visiting Lecturer and External Examiner at other universities and institutions. Past teaching experience includes Associate Lectureship Posts at Wimbledon and Farnham Colleges of Art, extensive Visiting Lectureship appointments and part-time teaching at both H.E and F.E levels in colleges and museums. She works as a Resident Artist in schools (see C.V.), is on advisory panels and gives papers at conferences.

Stockwell was Visiting Artist and Professor at The Ohio State University in1997. Since then she has taught extensively in the states at other colleges including Columbus College of Art and Design, Ringling School of Art and Design and Rochester College of Technology. She has taught in Taiwan at the National Taiwan University of the Arts (NTUA) in Taipei.

Stockwell is an External Examiner at the University of Kent at Canterbury on the B.A. and HND Fine Art Programms. She has worked as an External Advisor and External Examiner at other institutions.

Grants, awards and sponsorship relationships play an important role. Recent awards include a Taiwan-England International Artists Fellowship (a joint initiative between Visiting Arts, the Council for Cultural Affairs Taiwan, British Council Taiwan and Arts Council England) an A.H.R.C. Grant, Millenium Awards Grant, European Funding Board award and a Lambeth Arts Development Fund grant. Stockwell has an ongoing sponsorship relationship with Kimberly-Clark Ltd (Kleenex), and continues to work with The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, for example she was recently included in a lecture series there called Beyond identity:new directions in visual culture.

Her father was an educationalist and she grew up in an environment immersed in the philosophies of the day where new theories changed the face of education and teaching and learning was seen as a creative process.