Andy trained in Cornwall at what is now Falmouth School of Art. The Universities of Wales and New York supervised his doctorate, awarded for his research into early and unrecorded airbrush history and image manipulation. He has been programme director of a diverse number of BA (Hons) degrees. These range from illustration to multimedia and, more recently, advertising design. Andy has also taught on the Fellow's programme at Kodak's International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Andy's work has been exhibited in Europe, America, Finland, South Africa and the UK and he is a consultant editor of Art Scene International magazine.

Andy is supervising at PhD level and is a research-active member of the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) and the Institute of Small Business and Enterprise (isbe). In 2006 Andy was nominated for two international awards for research papers including the Internationalizing Entrepreneurship Education and Training Annual Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where a paper co-authored with Kathryn Penaluna won the prestigious ‘Best International Empirical Paper'.

In what he describes as a ‘career swerve’, Andy now Chairs the Higher Education Academy’s (HEA-BMAF) Special Interest Group in Entrepreneurial Learning and has been elected to Chair Enterprise Educators UK, a 90 University network, for 2010 / 2011. Unusually for a design educator, he is also an external examiner at Edinburgh Napier’s and Newcastle University’s Business Schools.  His appointment as Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship was made in recognition of his contribution to developing creative and innovative thinking in business contexts.

Research interests include media and image manipulation, photographic processes of the late 19th Century and, in more recent years, the parallel pedagogical strategies of design and entrepreneurship education.

Some recent publications:

Aerografo: il nuovo manuale delle teniche e della applicazioni nel terazo millennio. Mario Romani, Tipografia Moderna, Milan (2006). Chapter 1 by Andy Penaluna - Includes 15 image ‘step by step' and 5 illustrations by Andy Penaluna.

‘Out of Myopia - Enterprise in creative design', Co-authored with Kathryn Penaluna. Ralph Brown (ed.) In Palantine, Lancaster University, 2006.

‘Cox Review of Creativity in Business: Implications for Entrepreneurship Educators'. Co authored with Kathryn Penaluna (Enterprise Manager, Swansea Institute). In Conference Procedings - 29th Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference 2006 - INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP - from local to global enterprise creation and development. Nominated as ‘Best Newcomer'.

‘In Perspective - Getting Creative'. In Future Designers 2006-2007, p5. Warwick: Welch Media.

‘Business as Usual: Redefining the face of business and enterprise teaching - a brief is emerging', Newdesign, Issue 48, 2007 pp. 57-59.

‘Drawing Parallels: Design Pedagogies and Entrepreneurship Education'. In Teachers' Academy Papers - European League of Institutes of the Arts (2007). University of Brighton.

Penaluna, A. & Penaluna, K. (2009) Assessing Creativity; drawing from the experience of the UK’s Creative Design Educators. Education + Training, Emerald Publishing, Volume 51, Numbers 8-9, pp. 718-732

Penaluna, A. & Penaluna, K. (2009) Creativity in Business, Business in Creativity, transdisciplinary curricula as an enabling strategy in enterprise education?  Special issue of Industry and Higher Education on ‘Entrepreneurship Education in an international context’ Vol 23, No. 3

Penaluna, A. & Penaluna, K, (2008) Business Paradigms in Einstellung: Harnessing Creative Mindsets for Entrepreneurship Education, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship 21, no 2, pp 231-250

www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/library/files/adm-hea-projects/swanseacasestudy.pdf

http://ncge.com/communities/research/newsreader/showarticle/95

http://ncge.com/communities/research/reference/detail/625/7

http://ncge.com/communities/research/reference/detail/740/7

www.isbe2006.org/abstracthtml/97.html

www.business.heacademy.ac.uk/events/bmafconf07/bmaf07_abstractsandpapers.html

www.elia-artschools.org/_downloads/activities/trigger_ta/A1_full.pdf

Students:

Alun Reynolds