Michael Bryce Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Design at the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University), the School of Design and Architecture at the University of Canberra and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. He retired from Minale Bryce in September 2008, following his wife's appointment as Governor-General of Australia. The day after her swearing-in, he announced he would be selling his design practice in order to avoid "any breath of conflict of interests". In 2010 Bryce became Patron of the Australian Institute of Architects. At university
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce as ambassador and his return to Great Britain, he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Bryce, of Dechmount in the County of Lanark, in 1914. Thus, he became a member of the House of Lords, the powers of which had been curtailed in the Liberal Parliamentary Reform of 1911. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Bryce was commissioned by Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to give the official "Bryce Report" on alleged German atrocities in Belgium. The report was published in 1915 and was damning of German behaviour against civilians. Bryce's accounts were confirmed by Vernon Lyman