Dr. James Benedict Brown is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University. He is currently Year 1 leader of the BA(Hons) Architecture, and supervises third year undergraduate dissertations. His research is primarily concerned with architectural education and the representation of space.

James' PhD, A Critique of the Live Project (Queen's University Belfast, 2012) was shortlisted for the 2013 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis. He produces the Arch. Ed. Podcast, and is a founder member of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), for which he is currently the Series Editor of the peer reviewed academic journal Charrette.