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Next Generation Design Research Workshop Presentations

An amazing TEN (10) AHRC Next Generation Design Research workshops at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UAL, Central St. Martins, London, Loughborough University, Sheffield Hallam University, Royal College of Art (two), London, Manchester Metropolitan University, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, and…

AHRC Next Generation Design Research Workshops

The Next Generation Design Research workshops are half-day workshops that will explore the processes involved in applying for an AHRC grant. The workshops will be particularly helpful for researchers looking to secure their first AHRC funding grant and for other researchers…

Does Design Care…? Workshop

During the last 2-days in the Imagination Lab at Lancaster University, UK, we have welcomed researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to to explore what it means to care now as part of our International Workshop of…

Design for Change Public Lecture

The increasingly complex world that we inhabit today and the significant social problems we face are not isolated nor suited to any particular sector or discipline. Typically, these problems can be characterised as emergent phenomena with non-linear uncertainties. Collectively, moreover,…

Design for Good…

I was invited to give a lecture as part of the THIS WAY UP Public and Collaborative Lecture Series (Lecture 11) at Central Saint Martins on 13 March 2017. My lecture entitled “Design for Good…” critically examined Design’s past, present…

Design Theme Advisory Group (TAG)

I am delighted to name the Design Theme Advisory Group members who will be responsible for advising the AHRC and myself on issues related to the AHRC’s support of its strategic priority area of Design. The Design TAG members are:…

Design Leadership Fellowship Aims

The Aims of my Design Leadership Fellowship are as follows: To increase the quantity and quality of Design-led research proposals. To strengthen the research capacity of the next generation of Design researchers. To act as an ambassador for Design research…