Graeme Harper (writer)
Graeme Harper is a creative writer and academic, who writes under his own name and under the pseudonym Brooke Biaz. He received the Banjo Award in 1988, for his novel "Black Cat, Green Field". Education and academic career. In 1993, Harper received the degree of Doctor of Creative Arts, specialising in creative writing, at the University of Technology, Sydney. This was the first doctorate in creative writing conferred in Australia He finished his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1996. He is the Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University in Michigan, USA. There  he also directs the Mid-West Center for Undergraduate Research (MCUR). He is chair of the At-Large Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. He was the founding director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries at Bangor University, and the founding chair of the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. From 2003 to 2015 he was a panelist and assessor at Great Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and he is a former member (1998-2001) of the European Commission Culture and Education Directorate Panel of Experts  (DGX). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2005 and is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal "New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing", and Editor of the "Creative Industries Journal.". He is Co-Editor (with O. Evans) of "Studies in European Cinema" and (with O. Evans and C. Johnston) of the "Journal of European Popular Culture"