EUNIS25 Congress

Speaker

Frank Lyons MBE, Ulster University Frank Lyons MBE, Ulster University Professor of Music and Dean of Research and Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Frank Lyons is Professor of Music and Dean of Research and Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University. Frank is currently the Ulster University SRO on the £75m Studio Ulster, Belfast Region City Deal project and he co-led the Future Screens NI and CoSTAR bids to the AHRC which secured funding totalling £30m to support the development of creative industries in Northern Ireland. As Co-Director of the CoSTAR Screen Lab, he brings a wealth of experience in driving innovation at the intersection of technology, creativity and the arts. Frank has developed an international profile as a composer and researcher with over 200 performances and exhibitions of his works having been given in China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the US, Europe, the UK and Ireland and broadcast on BBC, RTE, NPR and ABCFM by leading soloists and ensembles including Darragh Morgan, Carlos Bonell, Alan Banks, Paul Roe, the Fidelio Trio, the Smith Quartet, the Benyounes Quartet, the Brindisi Quartet, Concorde and the Ulster Orchestra. He has developed an international network of research collaborations in the field of creative technologies and disability under the ‘Inclusive Creativity’ banner; this work was rated as ‘world-leading’ in two successive UK research assessment exercises, REF2014 and REF2021. Frank is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded an MBE in 2019 for services to Music and Higher Education.

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