Paul Inman

Paul Inman is the Director of the School of Media at University College Falmouth. He is responsible for the academic and strategic leadership of the School and serves as a member of the University College's Management Board. 

Since arriving at Falmouth in 2005 from a senior academic management position at Bournemouth University, Paul has grown the School of Media at Falmouth to become one of the largest in the UK with over 1500 students due to enrol in September 2010. He leads a team of over 100 full-time and part-time academic and technical staff. He has also overseen the delivery of major capital builds on the new campus at Tremough. The Media and Photography Centres represent a multi-million pound development that helped the School become nationally recognised as a Skillset Media Academy in 2008.

Paul has broadened the portfolio of courses on offer within the School of Media to now include Digital Media, Film, Photography, Animation, Television and Radio Production, Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, Creative Events Management, Professional Writing, and English. Skillset Media Academy status effectively marks out Falmouth as a nationally recognised centre of excellence for professional media education and training.

Paul played a leading role in the negotiations and recent merger with Dartington College of Arts and serves on the Academic Planning Group for the merged institution. More recently he has been involved in the writing and submission of a bid to establish the Academy of Innovation and Research (AIR) on the Tremough campus in 2010. The bid, if successful, will place employability at the heart of the institution and ramp up the college's economic partnership with businesses in Cornwall and the South West.

Alongside his career as a university senior academic and manager, Paul has had a successful career as a filmmaker and television producer and had his work broadcast on on all of the UK's major terrestrial television channels. He has also produced cinema commercials, information films and educational videos for various leading mental health charities, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Home Office and the Department of Health. Most recently, he executive produced a series of films for The Slot on Channel 4, managed Storylines - a documentary filmmaking project in West Africa and England for the British Council, and was Associate Producer on The Mental Health Testimony Project - a filmed oral history of long-term hospital psychiatric care for the British Library.

Throughout his media career Paul has always had connections with education and training. Whilst at Bournemouth University he set up and led their highly regarded BA(Hons) Television Production course, and went on to become Head of Admissions and Access developing access and diversity strategies that in 2005 helped the university achieve status as the UK's only HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP), and become a Skillset Screen Academy.

In the course of his 15 years working in UK universities, Paul has seen media graduates become leading agents of change in the Creative Industries. Alumni of his teaching and management have gone on to hold roles including BBC Head of Technology, Commissioning Editors at Channel 4, Head of Four Talent, ITV's Editor of Daytime Programming and over 500 independent producers, directors, camera and sound recordists, production managers, animators and screenwriters. He has also executive produced over 50 award-winning student films, television programmes and interactive media projects.

As universities became more interested in third stream funding Paul has developed innovative commercial educational projects with clients like the British Council, BBC TV, Radio and New Media, Endemol, Electrolux, the Celtic Media Festival, Fitness First, the Women's Institute, The Place, the Ghanaian Broadcasting Corporation, the Eden Project, 15 Cornwall and the British Library.

Paul has held a number of external academic and professional positions over the past 20 years. He was appointed as Film, Video and Broadcast Adviser for Southern Arts (1990 - 1993), External Examiner for Communication and Mass Media at Glasgow Caledonian University (1998 - 2001), Subject Adviser for Media Studies at De Montfort University (2004) and Paisley University (2005), External Examiner for Media and Communications at Birmingham City University (2005 - 2009), External Examiner for University of Sunderland (2009 - 2012) and Media Subject Adviser for University of the West of Scotland (2010 - 2013). He was also a Film and Television Talent Scout for NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) in 2004.

Paul is currently continuing his professional development by studying for an MBA in Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education, University of London (due for completion in 2010). He sits on the Strategic Management Board of the Next Generation Broadband project in Cornwall, is a Director of 15 Cornwall, the Jamie Oliver inspired restaurant and social enterprise at Watergate Bay, a Board member of the Cornwall Film Festival, and recently became the one of the founding Directors of The Source FM - Falmouth and Penryn's community radio station which went ‘on-air' in 2009.

Paul is married with two children and lives on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, UK.