Professor Peter Bryant is an award-winning academic with international expertise in designing and delivering successful strategic educational change in both business and social sciences institutions. He has thirty years of teaching and research experience in both the UK and Australia, in the areas of higher education strategy, educational innovation, online learning and creative industries management. Until July 2025, we have the Associate Dean Education at the University of Sydney Business School. He is currently the Director of the Disruptive Innovations in Business Education research group. This transdisciplinary group leads provocative and challenging debates about the future of business education through rigorous research and public discourse.

He has worked as an academic and educational leader in several leading UK and Australian institutions prior to joining the University of Sydney Business School, including the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Greenwich and Middlesex University. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Technology, Sydney.

He is an active researcher and speaker on innovative teaching and learning, educational spaces, learning technology, the future of Business School education and opportunities of student co-design. Peter's educational research interests include digital identity and social media, the influences and impacts of digital pedagogies, the relationship between learning spaces, design and pedagogy, and institutional and leadership responses to change and crisis within the higher education, more specifically business education spaces.

Outside of business education, Peter has published research in community and third sector governance and the uses of community and public media for the promotion of arts and network formation processes amongst arts practitioners. Most recently, his work has focused on the motivations for participation in DIY and making in the creative industries exploring notions of post-digital aesthetics, community development and the transformative and disruptive influences of technology on identity, making and participation. Peter is an experienced qualitative researcher, with an expertise in grounded theory and other constructivist methodologies.

Peter is Editor-in-Chief of Research in Learning Technology, a leading journal focusing on the intersections of technology and education. He is the co-director of the Research Committee of the Management Education and Development Division at the Academy of Management. He is an in demand speaker including keynotes, podcasts and mainstream media.