Dr Paul Stewart is an artist and researcher based In Newcastle. He is a Principal lecturer and co-leads the UG Fine Art programme and the UG ad PG Curating suite at MIMA School of Art and Design, Teesside University. Completed a PhD in Art and Philosophy (2018) Teesside University and a MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College as well as a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Lincoln University (2011). He co-founded the Middlesbrough Art Weekender in 2017 and has set up collectives including the Alternative Art College (2011-2014) and currently co-running Bad Spirits with Dawn Bothwell. Core elements in his practice and research include the effects of neoliberalism on Higher Education, democracy and art practice and Critical Pedagogy as a methodology in art making. Alongside research into digital communities in art making and the effects of digital making on curation and collection processes. His New book with Routledge: Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism was published in Dec 2020.

 PhD Areas

• Postdigital practice 
• Arts and Moving Image 
• Hegemonic and agonisitic practices 
• Curatorial stratagies 
• arts and public engagement 
• pedagogical apporaches to arts production and arts education

Current students 

Jonathan Lovell
Second supervisor
Project title: Reconsidering the act of creation, reproduction and dissemination within Image making and a Post-Digital context

Aidan Moesby
Second supervisor
Project title: Under the Clouds: A practice-based investigation at the intersection of Art, Digital and Disability within a weather based metalogue

Russell Pollard
Second supervisor
Project title: THE TASTE OF SWEAT AND SAND: AN EXPLORATION OF MILITARY TRAUMA THROUGH POETRY AND PERFORMANCE

• Peer Reviewer for Arts and Humanites Education Journal - Sage Publication 
• Co-investigator for Creative Fuse North east 
• Editior for OnCurating.org