Dr Pauline Clancy

Overview

Dr. Pauline Clancy is a Lecturer in Design / Graphic Design at Ulster University. She is also Co-Programme Director for BA (Hons) Art and Design (Foundation Year for Specialist Degree)

She graduated with distinction from BDes (Hons) Visual Communication, NCAD (National College of Art and Design), Dublin and in 2013 completed an MFA in Multidisciplinary Design (Graphic Design) at Ulster. Previously, she worked in design studios in Dublin and continues to work as a practising Graphic Designer. In 2016, she completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (PgCHEP) and was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Pauline has recently completed a practice-led PhD at Ulster where her research explored analogue and digital approaches to typography, examining the materiality of language in hybrid spaces. Her research practice encompasses experimental digital approaches to typography and expands into the area of printmaking, in particular screen-printing for typography. She has exhibited her work in group shows nationally and internationally including Neon Gallery, in collaboration with Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Wroclaw (2026), CFPR (Centre for Print Research) at Woolwich Print Fair, London (2025), Collections, A—Z, Berlin (2022), and Impact 11Hong Kong (2021).

Her work has received a Communication Arts Typography Award and featured in CA Typography Annual (2021). She also received a Society of Typographic Arts (STA) 100 Award in 2025 and 2019. Recent publications include A Type of Chaos (2023) in Beyond Pattern and Chaos: making and meaning anthology/reader peer-reviewed by Norwich University of the Arts Pattern and Chaos Research Group (Intellect Publishers).

She is a member of the Belfast School of Art, Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team, a member of International Society of Typographic Designers (MISTD), Institute of Designers in Ireland (IDI) and Design Research Society (DRS).