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Paul Inman is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He has served as a member of the University’s senior management team since 2011 and leads on international student recruitment. Oxford Brookes University is listed as one of the top 200 most international universities in the world (THE World University Rankings 2018) and is one of the UK’s leading providers of transnational education (TNE).

Paul also leads a Faculty of sector-leading teaching, research and knowledge exchange in Fine Art, Film and Digital Media, Music, Publishing, Computing, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture and the Built Environment. Under his leadership the Faculty is now the academic unit delivering the majority of the University’s research grant income, and every School within the Faculty contains world-leading teaching (QS World University Rankings 2018).

Paul led the initiative to establish a Confucius Institute in Oxford in 2016. He was the founding director of University Technical College Swindon, and serves as a member of council at Ruskin College, Oxford. Previously, he was a board member of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, and a director of 15 Cornwall, the restaurant and social enterprise set up by TV chef, Jamie Oliver.

Prior to moving to Oxford, Paul was Director of the School of Media at Falmouth University where he led on a rapid growth agenda, introducing a range of new disciplines (including Press and Editorial Photography, Creative Advertising and Digital Media), and achieved national recognition for the university as a Skillset Media Academy.

Paul led the internationally regarded Television Production subject area at Bournemouth University, and later as a senior manager there, developed access and diversity strategies which helped establish the UK’s only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the UK's first Skillset Screen Academy.

Paul has had a parallel career as a filmmaker and television producer. Alongside his broadcast work, he has produced cinema commercials, films and educational videos for leading mental health charities, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Home Office. He managed Storylines, a filmmaking project in West Africa and England for the British Council, and was Associate Producer on The Mental Health Testimony Project, a filmed oral history of long-term psychiatric patients for the British Library. He was also the founding director of Source FM community radio station.