Professor Frank Lyons

Professor Frank Lyons has been Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences since 2017. He is currently the Ulster University SRO on the £75m Studio Ulster, Belfast Region City Deal project that has secured support from global companies such as Netflix, Epic Games, Unreal Engine and Activision, amongst others. He co-led the Future Screens NI bid to the AHRC Creative Industries Clusters programme, which secured funding of £13m to support the development of creative industries in Northern Ireland.  

He has developed an international profile as a composer and researcher with over 200 performances and exhibitions of his works having been given in China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the US, Europe, the UK and Ireland and broadcast on BBC, RTE, NPR and ABCFM by some of the world’s leading soloists and ensembles. 

He has led an international network of research collaborations in the field of creative technologies and disability under the ‘Inclusive Creativity’ banner. 

Frank is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded an MBE in 2019 for services to Music and Higher Education.