Prof James Crabbe, Dean

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Professor James Crabbe, Dean

James Crabbe is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bedfordshire.

He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University (where he has been a Fellow since 1979), and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading (where he was Head of a large School before coming to UoB), and at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai in China.

His research has resulted in over 135 publications in refereed international journals, 49 books, major book chapters and reviews, 14 items of commercial software, and numerous invitations as Plenary speaker at International conferences.

He is currently a member of the Council of University Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and an Affiliate of the Academy of Social Sciences.

He has made several classical recordings, one of which won an award (The Sound of the Georgian Piano for RCA), and has worked in BBC TV and Radio, and on the Science and Art programme of the Wellcome Trust.

He has given invited lectures on Science and the Arts, both in this country and abroad, and in 1999 Routledge published his edited book entitled: 'From Soul to Self' covering ideas on the philosophy, history, theology, anthropology and science of the soul and of the self. (ISBN 0-415-17117-2)

He is also Chairman of Trustee Directors of the Charity for Access Ability and Communications Technology (AACT for children), and a Governor of Dunstable College Corporation.