Dr Michael Coates PhD, SFHEA

Faculty-wide Education

As a Principal Lecturer in the School I lead on various strategic education projects, around curriculum review, innovation and design. I work at both School and the wider Faculty of Arts & Humanities leading projects as part of the Manchester Met Education Strategy.

I have worked at Manchester Met since 2004, in The Manchester School of Art; first on BA Interior Design, then from 2008 on BA History of Art & Design, and from 2010 as a senior lecturer in Contextualising Practice.
I moved to Faculty level role as Faculty Head of Postgraduate overseeing all of our MA, MFA and MSc degrees and served in this role from 2018-2023.

My education in design and architecture began with an undergraduate degree at the Cardiff School of Art with a BA (Hons) Interior Architecture (2002). I then moved to Manchester in 2003 to complete my MA Spatial Design at the Manchester School of Art (2004), and after 20 years living in this great city I consider myself an adopted Mancunian.

In 2022 I was awarded my PhD in architecture history and theory from the University of Sheffield with a thesis entitled "The Architects’ Revolutionary Council: Architectural anarchy in Britain & Ireland in the 1970s and how to destroy the R.I.B.A."