Academic and professional qualifications

2019 PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University

2013 Fellow, Higher Education Academy

2013 PG Cert LTHE, UCLan (SEDA accredited)

2011 Associate, Higher Education Academy

2011 University Certificate HE Teaching, UCLan 

2009 Master of Philosophy by Research, Manchester School of Architecture

2006 Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice, RIBA NW

2000 Diploma in Architecture, Mackintosh School of Architecture

1997 Bachelor of Arts with Honours: Architecture 2:1

Previous Employment

2009 - 2015 UCLan, Lancashire, Senior Lecturer. BA (Hons) Architecture Programme, teaching across studio and humanities.

2008 - 2009 The Manchester School of Architecture. Associate lecturer, year one.

2005 - 2009 O’Connell East Architects, Manchester.  Project architect working on the refurbishment of listed buildings in Manchester and Newark and new build residential projects.

2004 - 2005 Chapman Robinson Architects and EDAW, Manchester.  Part 3 assistant working on master planning and urban design schemes as well as private houses, housing association, residential and leisure projects.

2003 - 2004 Barnes Walker, Manchester.  Architectural assistant working across commercial, master planning and external works.

2002 - 2004 The Manchester School of Architecture. Associate lecturer, year one.

2002 - 2003 Manchester Society of Architects and RIBA Research Trust Award. Feasibility study and research for an exhibition of architectural drawings.

2001-2003 Centre for the Understanding of the Built Environment. Programme manager for CUBE’s outreach programme: The City @ CUBE. Bid writer securing funds from NWDA, Regional Arts Lottery Programme, CABE and the Arts Council.

2000 - 2002 Fairhursts Design Group, Manchester. Part 2 architectural Assistant working on large-scale urban retail and leisure projects.

2000 Percival Smith Associates Limited, Manchester. Assistant art director, Seven Seas Commercial.

1997 - 1998 Fairhursts Design Group, Manchester. Part 1 architectural assistant working on large-scale commercial, education and pharmaceutical projects.

Academic service (administration and management)

Year 6 lead.

Employability lead.

Research

Exhibitions

Steele, M., Csepely-Knorr, L., 2020. Bauhaus Models, The Modernist, 16/1/2020 - 25/1/2020.

Jolley, V., Dodge, M., Ronan, A., 2019. Burnage Garden Village, Manchester Central Library, 9/3/2019.

Manchester Society Architects, 2015. We Built This City, Manchester Metropolitan University, 30/11/2015.

Artefacts

Jolley, VS., 2016. 'Events 2016: Synergy', http://events.msa.ac.uk/2016/.

Jolley, VS., 2015. 'Events 2015: Transgression', http://events.msa.ac.uk/2015/.

Internet Publications

Jolley, V., 2013. 'Constructing knowledge: A Pedagogic Evaluation of Design-Based Learning.', http://pops.uclan.ac.uk/index.php/ujpr/article/view/124.

Journal Articles

Jolley, V., 2019. 'Miniature Garden City', The Modernist, 31 in-between.

Jolley, V., 2012. 'An Unsuspected Skyline Rival: Lee House, Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester (1928-31)', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 89 (1), pp. 161-177.

Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

Jolley, V., 2019. 'Jolley, V. (2019). Build strong:art is long: Manchester Society of Architects' Students' committee evenings 1900-1914. Manchester School of Architecture: A Short History. 16-25.'.

Conference Papers

Jolley, V., 2019. 'Synthesis: vertical projects and multi-disciplinary external collaborations in architectural education', 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 28/6/2019 - 29/6/2019.

Jolley, VS., 2018. 'The rural super city: Central Lancashire New Town', MODERNISM, MODERNISATION AND THE RURAL LANDSCAPE, Tartu, Estonia, 11/6/2018 - 13/6/2018.

Jolley, VS., 2017. 'Central Lancashire New Town: the hidden polycentric supercity', 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age, Valencia, 27/9/2017 - 29/9/2017, in City and territory in the Globalization Age Conference proceedings.

Jolley, VS., Sanderson, L., 2017. 'Events // A Decade of Student Led Collaborative Projects', AAE Conference 2017: Architecture Connects, Oxford Brookes University, 6/9/2017 - 9/9/2017, in https://aaeconference2017.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/aae-2017-architecture-connects-proceedings_180706_high-res-print.pdf, pp. 117-125.

Jolley, VS., 2016. 'Central Lancashire New Town: The Agrarian Metropolis', Regional Urbanism in the Era of Globalisation, Huddersfield, 3/2/2016 - 5/2/2016, in http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/artdesignandarchitecture/research/conferences/regional-urbanism/#Programme.

Jolley, VS., 2014. 'Lan Plan: Central Lancashire New Town (1965-86)', Twentieth Century New Towns: Archetypes and Uncertainties, Porto, ESAP, 22/5/2014 - 24/5/2014, in Twentieth Century New Towns: Archetypes and Uncertainties. Conference proceedings.

Presentations

Hanley, AL., Jolley, V., Sanderson, L., Coucill, L., Robertson, J., Sobell, HB., 2021. 'MAP Manchester Architecture Papers'.

Jolley, V., 2019. 'Prime Mover', Leaf, Manchester.