Experienced Director of Partnerships providing strategic leadership and direction for the development, implementation, and management of international and regional educational partnerships in the College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE) at UWE Bristol.
Partnership Lead for high-profile transnational partnerships. Management of multi-partner franchise operations, dual award recognition, flying faculty provision with budget oversight. Expertise in staff development and onboarding for TNE as well as strategic partnership expansion.
Serving as a senior university representative to external stakeholders to oversee communication, negotiation of agreements and relationship building. Assessing new opportunities and risks in transnational education.
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). Former Programme Leader of BSc Digital Media (2018-2023) with expertise in User Centered Design, UX/UI design and Human Computer Interaction.
Michaela Palmer is the Founder/Director of Smart Play Technologies Ltd, a Bristol-based Health Tech Startup. Smart Play Technologies was selected for the NatWest Product Programme at Future Space Bristol in 2026.
Director of the Foundry, a UWE Bristol intrapreneurship space in 2023; demonstrated business engagement, studio management and project leadership skills in creative technologies.
Michaela initiated and developed the Design Enterprise Studio, a creative agency. Since 2019 providing final year students with high-quality project management experiences, and first client projects. Involving graduating digital media students in widening participation and outreach activities such as:
Awarded a Vice Chancellor Challenge Award 2024-26 for developing a machine learning system to correctly interpret exercise movements. Project Lead of an interdisciplinary research team spanning across mechatronics, games technology, AI and health. Supported in kind by the Bristol Centre for Enablement and the ExtraCare Charitable Foundation.
UWE RBI Seed Fund 2023/24 to build an adaptive exercise device prototype to interface with a machine learning software application.
PhD Supervision: Caitlin Shepherd, PhD candidate at UWE DCRC, as part of the 3D3 consortium. Title: Sonorous States (UWE) 2015 — 2021.
Supervision Team: Prof. Jonathan Dovey (Director of Studies), Dr. Michaela Palmer, Dr. David Prior (Falmouth).
Projection Mapping
Electro-acoustic music composition, such as Cymbale, (2021) Sound composition at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, US or Gandharam, Lullaby for Max Mathews, (2015) for flute and live electronics in stereo, performed at the International Computer Music Conference, University of North Texas, US
Environmental, data-driven sound compositions, for example Severn Sounds Player (2013), a real-time data sonification of tidal & weather conditions at Severn estuary locations. International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Biofeedback Performances, practice-based PhD Listening to the Mind at play – sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory, London Metropolitan University, UK 2001-2011
Collaborative compilations: Sonic ArtLab, Sonic Severn (environmental data sonifications).