Rachael Brown is a Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth School of Architecture. She currently coordinates the third-year Interior Architecture and Design programme and has also acted as Course Leader for the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Interior courses. Before becoming a lecturer, Rachael was an Associate Director of BDP, one of Europe’s largest interdisciplinary design practices, and worked on a diverse range of award-winning projects; she also worked as an interior designer at Hampshire County Architects and for Hassell Architects in Australia. Rachael has taught art and design in Secondary, Further and Higher Education having completed a PGCE at the Institute of Education in London and subsequently obtaining a PGCTLHE at the University of Portsmouth; she is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As a practice-based researcher, Rachael uses collage, printing, and painting to visualise social, political and cultural narratives. Current projects include Time after Time, a series of three hand-crafted artist’s books that illustrate selected elements of the extraordinary social, political and environmental global events that occurred between 2016 and 2021 (developed as part of her recently completed MA in Illustration); she is also working on a collaborative research project, Tyneham Unravelled, which aims to reveal the layered narratives of a village that was evacuated during WWII.