Professor Christine White is Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Humanities, Director of the Design Unit and Professor of Art & Design.
She has held a number of senior management positions across seven Higher Education Institutions in the UK and a number of portfolios including all aspects of international recruitment and collaborations, research, enterprise and civic engagements, teaching, learning and student experience.
She was Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Apprenticehsips at 冈本视频 and was the OfSted Nominee 2017-2022.
She works on wider city civic engagement activities with Leicester City Council, most recently Historic England award for the Heritage Action Zone 2020-2024.
She is a designer who has worked in a number of contexts from live performance, film and art installations, events and products.
She has published eight books and contributes to other publications. She was the founding convenor of the International Federation for Theatre Research Scenography Working Group and was one of the first people to produce a Ph.D. study of Scenography in the UK.
She is founding and co-editor of Scene an internationally peer-reviewed journal exploring visual contexts of cultural production in narrative and interactive arts, which over the last 10 years has produced work that covers a range of performative designed contexts including holography and virtual production.
She is a reviewer for a number of publishers including Intellect, Palgrave and Routledge.
She is also a reviewer for research councils including collaborative projects with the Medical Research Council and was a peer reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College 2006-2018.