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…
The UK’s seven research councils have recently announced they will be working together to encourage and strengthen mental health research. Mental health is recognised as a major societal challenge that requires novel cross-disciplinary research approaches, that is, research that spans…
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…
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,…
Care, like design, is both a noun and a verb. As a noun, care is defined as the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, or protection of someone or something (e.g. care of the elderly, taking…
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…
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:…
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…