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I worked as an Editorial Designer in central London for over fifteen years. In that time I designed illustrated non-fiction books for a range of publishers including Dorling Kindersley, Time Life and Mitchell Beazley. Some of the titles that I have designed are, The Millennium Encyclopaedia – Dorling Kindersley (DK), Flight 100 Years of Aviation – DK. Mindpower series – Time Life.

I have worked as a Lecturer of Higher Education Art programmes across several institutions including Falmouth University and Truro College. I am currently working as Senior Programme Manager of the BA(Hons)/ FdA Art & Design Practice programme at Cornwall College, where I am also Group Lead for Progression to Higher Education. I have worked as an External Examiner for various HE colleges, and as a Chief External Examiner at Falmouth University.

I hold an MA in Contemporary Art from Falmouth University.

I have worked as a Photographer for over 30 years. Initially working in industry for magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, publishers, television corporations, design agencies and private clients. I have seven photographs in The National Gallery Photographic Collection. Clients include The Observer, The Guardian, Channel 4, BBC, Vogue, Marie Claire, Faber & Faber.

As an educator, I have worked across a range of levels and institutions. I hold a Masters degree and a PGCE. I am a teacher and lecturer with over twenty years’ experience, I am still fascinated by Photography and its significance and influence. I continue to work as a Photographer based in Cornwall.

Dr James Kearns was called as a barrister at Middle Temple, London, in 1997, specialising in both Criminal and Family law at the Inns of Court School of Law. He is a registered university teacher at the University of Plymouth, and lecturer in Contextual Studies and the Dissertation Module at Cornwall College University Centre, Camborne Campus. James earned his M.A. in English Studies: Landscape and Literature at the University of Exeter, and received his Ph.D. in English from the School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth. He specialises in British Modernist literature of the period 1910-1945, with particular expertise in: Virginia Woolf and perceptual microgenesis; cognitive literary studies; Alfred North Whitehead and the philosophy of organism; literature and holism; literature and place; literature and politics (particularly Queer theory). His latest research examined the fictions of Virginia Woolf, which he read in conjunction with Jason Brown’s formulation of microgenetic theory – understood, in the first instance, as a short-term formation of a psychological process, and, according to Brown himself, as “[t]he incessant flow of cognition, the continual appearance and disappearance of new form at each moment of our waking and sleeping life […].” James has just completed a monograph, Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis: Mental States and Conceptual Worlds, which will be published in September 2025 by Routledge as part of their Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Series. A paper on Woolf’s The Waves and cognitive derailment will be published in the summer of 2025 (vol, 23, no. 3), as part of a special edition of Acta Neuropsychologica, “Essays in Honour of Jason Brown.” James is currently working on his second monograph, Virginia Woolf’s Prose in Process: Prehension, Transition, Concrescence. This book examines the ways in which Woolf explored, and challenged, the realist/rationalist contradiction of a “Self” in the absence of the external world – how should one “describe a world seen without a self?” He has published three interconnecting novels with the Highfields Press, Guppy (2023), Herring (2024) and Gurnard (2025), with a fourth, Pike, due in 2026.

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