Academic Career
Stair is a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, (1987-1998); Fellow in Craft & Criticism at the University of Northumbria, (1998-1999); Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, (2004); and Senior Research Fellow at University of Arts, London, (2002-2011). He is an alumnus of Cape Farewell, an interdisciplinary programme that explores a sustained artistic response to climate change. He joined the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, visiting West Greenland with over 40 international artists, journalists and scientists.
He has been a regular contributor to ceramic journals since the mid 1980s. Recent publications include ‘The Employment of Matter: Pottery of the Omega Workshop’, contributing essay to Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshop 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London.
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