Teaching and Research Interests:

HEA Fellowship Award 2009
Art, Design and Media Fellowship – the art critique and online communities
Verbal Feedback and the Art Critique– (Wolverhampton University 2009) Critical review and examination of the use of verbal feedback and the group critique within art and design pedagogy.
Invisible Boundaries (2007) – (Derby University)
Chapters include - Photographic Fiction and Loss, the Domestic and Personal and the Archive.Throughout all chapters I am interested in the continued dominance of the singular image in contemporary writing at a time when digital technology and culture are making the multiplicity of images prevalent.

Qualifications:

University of Derby – Department of the Arts
Ph. D. Photography – Awarded 2007
Title: Invisible Boundaries.

University of Derby – Department of Arts
MA Photographic Studies. Dissertation-The Semiotics of the Photographic Image. Awarded April 1992.

University of Exeter
Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Awarded May 2003

Crewe and Alsager College HE.
B.A. (Hons) Combined Studies in Creative Arts
2.1 Awarded August 1987.
Specialist Areas: Photography, Performance and Creative Writing
Dissertation: Concrete Poetry

1991 - 1991 Bielefeld Fachhochschule, Germany. Researcher. Study Visit supervised by Fontologist Professor Gerd Fleischmann

Publications:

Solo Exhibitions:

Pictures of my Father - work in progress 2009
Garden Manifesto – work in progress 2008/09
In Momentum-Walk to Work
Galleri Paradis, Bornholm, Denmark.  Summer 2005
Bank St Gallery, Kirrimuir, Scotland Aug 2005
Invisible Boundaries:
May-June 2005 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton. Devon
May-June 2002 the Michael Tippet Centre, Bath Spa University.
March 2002- Web Page of Invisible Boundaries launched.
Drift Objects
October 2003 Thelma Holbert Gallery, Honiton
Helens Seat
May 1997 University of Plymouth
Coloured Squares
August 1994 The Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
Digital Figures: M.A. Work
May - June 1992 Marsden Mechanics Institute, Huddersfield.
Dec 1991 Derby University.
April 1992 Bradford CTC.

• External Examiner:

FDA Photography, NESCOT, 2007-2011;

• Course validation panel member:

FDA Photography, NESCOT, May 2009

      Steering Group FAD Level 3/4 Edexcel 2009

January 2008 - present

University of Wolverhampton

0.8 Senior Lecturer art and design, photography
0.2 Curriculum, networking and accreditiation
Provision of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in art and design, including art and design and photographic theory; digital and traditional image production; research skills in the School of Art and Design. Specific responsibilities and administrative activities include:

• Curriculum design, course and syllabi development. Re-writing Photography BA Programme to 20 Credit Modules June 2009
• Level 0 Validation and programme development, feasibility studies (Lifelong Learning Network 2008/09), management and product author. Course Validated May 2009.
• Networking with local colleges and arts providers to create FDA’s and WMA (Wolverhampton Media Academy)
• Seats on numerous academic and management committees including Academic Boards Contextual Studies and Art and Design.
• Supervisory and administrative duties consummate with senior lecturer status.
• Developed accreditations with Apple and Nikon UK
• Created VL network including visit and links with Patrick Burgoyne Creative Review (ed)
• Long Gallery exhibition space, got frames and tracking for exhibition space
• Quality Assurance – developed IV programme and provided additionality for Modules where achievement is/was low
• MA teaching and personal qualification for PHD supervision UOW Feb 2009
  
  
  

September 1993 – December 2007

Exeter College

Lecturer in art and design, photography
Courses written and established – FDA Photography (University of Plymouth), Lens Media Foundation Studies.
Nominated for StAR teaching awards 2006 the Student Awards Category

September 1990 – September 1992

Huddersfield Polytechnic and Huddersfield Technical College, Oldham College (Part time)

B.A Communication Arts, FAD - Foundation Studies (Fine Art and Photography)

Books:

Day, P.  (2009) The Garden Manifesto. Art Book and Personal Monograph

Articles in international peer reviewed journals and peer reviewed book chapters:

Day.P Volume Magazine (2008) images from Invisible Boundaries
Day.P (2006 Feb 24) ‘Digital Call s the Shots’ Times Educational Supplement
Day. P (2004 Dec) ‘The use of web sites in research within Art and Design’. Times Educational Supplement
Day. P (March 1991) the Kirklees Media Handbook
Day. P In the Picture and In Sight magazines - Photography in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Nov 1991/Spring 1992
Day.P (1999) Ski Masks. Images Published July 1999. Proof Books.
Day.P  (2002-04) Artifact Website The Institute for Learning and Resource Technology, Bristol University. Resource Discover Network case studies for the use of the web based research for art and desif=gn students with FAD (Foundation Art and Design)

Teaching, Examining, Training

2005- 2007 Edexcel Principal Chief Examiner for GCE Art and Design. Roles and responsibilities included:
*Writing and producing curriculum to QCA subject benchmarks
*Setting national standards for GCE art and design grade benchmarks
*Writing exam papers
*Training examiners, HOD, teachers to national standards and benchmarks
*Monitoring and training of a large team of senior and regional examiners
*Providing expertise toward ongoing subject developments and provision for GCE

2002-2005 -Edexcel GCE Art and Design: Assistant Principal Moderator for the South West of England

2002/3- BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design: External Verifier.

2003-2004 BTEC ND Art and Design Foundation Studies. Examiner

1999-2003 - AQA Art and Design Moderator.

Other publications:

Invisible Boundaries
BBC Online May/June 2005
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/culture/2005/05_may/peter_day_insight.shtml
Big Issue June 2005

2008 - Berlin Typography Festival
Http://www.typoberlin.de

Invited lectures, presentations and panel memberships:

April 11 1992 Lecture ‘Photography as Art’ - the National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford
April 30 1992 Bradford CTC Lecture - Applications of Electronic Media
July 4 1992 Ripon and St John College Photography in Primary and Secondary Education.
Dec 8 1994 Cardiff Institute of Higher Education - Presentation of Personal Artworks.
Dec 1998 - University of Plymouth - Presentation of Personal Artworks to Research Group.