RESEARCH

Focused on design-led studies for ageing, health and care funded by UKRI (AHRC; EPSRC; ESRC; MRC), NIHR and charitable trusts, contributing to research into ageing, dementia, stroke, spinal cord injury, nutrition and infection prevention and control.

Winner ‘Best Research’ category in the inaugural 2018 AHRC/Wellcome Health Humanities Awards.
Personal professorship awarded 2000 for academic leadership and research at GSA.

Design for an ageing population. 12 years’ extensive field and technical research into inclusive design in Japan supported by: Japan Foundation Research Fellowship (2004); Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award (2004); Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (GBSF) awards (Butterfield Award 2007-2010); and GBSF small grants (2005, 2014).

PhD SUPERVISION and EXAMINATION

Supervised to completion a number of PhD students developing the application of design-led research in healthcare and have examined PhDs at GSA, Loughborough, Dundee, TU Delft (Netherlands), Aarhus (Denmark), and Umeå (Sweden).

PROFILE and OUTPUTS

https://radar.gsa.ac.uk/profile/197
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-6229

LEARNING AND TEACHING

Product designer by training. Part of founding team for GSA’s award-winning Product Design Engineering (PDE) programme joining in 1989 before becoming its Head of Department from 1996-2006. Instrumental in developing and delivering the PDE MEng option. Principal development consultant for an equivalent PDE programme at The Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 1995-1996, and an MEng exchange option with the Hanzehogeschool, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Visiting professor: Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia; Faculteit Techniek, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, The Netherlands; Centre for the Arts, Tasmanian University, Hobart, Australia; Fachhochschule Trier, Germany; Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto & Beppu), Japan.

EXTERNAL EXAMINING (PROGRAMMES)

University of Dundee; the Royal College of Art; Loughborough University; and Sheffield Hallam University.

INCLUSIVE DESIGN WORKSHOPS

Developed and delivered, as visiting professor, an intensive annual 15-session ‘inclusive design' programme for students at the Ritsumeikan University Kyoto (2003-2007), for non-design graduate business and management masters students from developing and transitional regions at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Kyushu, Japan (2008-2012), for designers in manufacturing companies affiliated to the International Association for Universal Design (IAUD) and for Japanese service managers in 2008. A version of this programme was developed for professional architects in the Building and Construction Authority Academy, Singapore (2007).