James Branch

Lecturer, Brand Design & Strategy

I teach across a range of modules at Falmouth including Creative Problem Solving, Startup, and Behaviour Change for Good. I'm also an AHRC funded postgraduate researcher at the Loughborough Design School focussed on User Experience (UX) education. Before working in higher education I was a graphic designer in London.

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Contact details

Email James.Branch@falmouth.ac.uk

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2014 MRes Arts and Cultural Research University of Brighton
    2010 MA Design with Learning and Teaching in HE Kingston University, London
    2000 BA Design Studies Goldsmiths

    Membership of external committees

    Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    • Branch, James

      Evans, Mark, (2021), Do UX design courses meet industry’s needs? Analysing UX degrees and job adverts, In: The Design Journal, Taylor Francis, London, 24 (4), ISSN: 1756-3062

    • Branch, James

      (2016), Mapping the mast, In: Communication Design: Interdisciplinary and Graphic Design Research, Bloomsbury, London, UK, 3 (1), ISSN: 2055-7140

    • Branch, James

      (2018), Learning from Networked Public Space, In: Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, London, UK, 14 (1), pp. 129-131, ISSN: 1751-7435

    • Su, Cui and Branch, James

      (2011), Print Matters: Zines, In: Print Matters, March 2011, Southampton Hartley Library

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Creative Problem Solving; Start-up; Final Year Project

    Courses taught

    • BA (Hons) Creative Advertising

    Professional Engagement

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    • External Examiner University of Northampton 2016-2020

    • External Examiner University of West London 2014-2018