Jeremy Diggle is currently professor of Fine Art at the University of Plymouth. Professor Diggle joined the University of Plymouth in June 2004. He is the Associate Dean of Research (Faculty of Arts) and Professor of Fine Art at the University. He has also been a Professor of Fine Arts and Head of the ELAM School of Art, University of Auckland and had been Research Professor and Head of School at Gray's the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. Jeremy Diggle has taught for 20 years in higher arts and has been involved in a number of international projects. He is also a member of the Representative Board of the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), an independent membership organization representing over 320 higher arts education institutions in over 45 countries.

Professor Diggle has studied at St Martins School of Art, The Royal College of Art, and The University of Exeter. Since his education as a painter at St Martins and The Royal College, he has established an international reputation for his use of technology and highly crafted narrative work.

Professor Diggle has been working as a digital artist since the early 1990s, and his work has been exhibited and published widely, including Video Positive at the Liverpool Tate Gallery, the Terror conference in Manchester and many other exhibitions in the UK and abroad. He has worked in holography, photography, video and multimedia. He is well known as a storyteller, who works in the tradition of oral narrative and has developed this aspect of his work through performance, the web and hyper-text. The works in his most recent exhibition In the U.K. represented his interest in digitally constructed photographic narratives. These works exhibited at New Zealand House, were a selection from a series of images that will form a book (Reliquaries) to be published in 2006. A larger exhibition of these photographs is currently on display in the Macy Gallery here at Teachers College, Columbia University.