Professor Lynn-Sayers McHattie is Professor of Design Innovation at The Glasgow School of Art and Programme Director - Research in the Innovation School. Lynn holds an AHRC funded PhD in Design from The Glasgow School of Art (2012). She is a designer with over 30 years’ experience, has held Design Director roles in the creative industries, and as a consultant has directed assignments internationally in fashion and textiles. Lynn’s place-based research interests are located within geographically distributed, and indigenous, island communities. Her cross-cultural research explores craft and textile practices as ‘cultural assets’, which connect to the landscape and culture of communities, and the role design-led innovation can play in socio-cultural renewal. She focuses on the relationship between people, place and practice towards a deeper understanding of ‘tacit wisdom’ as a foundational concept. Her practice encompasses textiles as ‘knowledge artefacts’ that provide an interdisciplinary link between crafting conversations and ideologies of identity - which interact to inform a wider socio-cultural research agenda around the transformation of craft - with an emphasis on ‘pluralities of value’, ‘resilient communities’ and new ‘economies of wellbeing’. She works extensively in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland and SE Asia. Lynn has considerable experience of directing UKRI funded bids and is Principal Investigator (PI) on AHRC funded Design Innovation & Land-Assets (DI&L) Network and DI&L Follow-on-Funding (FoF) as part of the UKRI Strategic Priorities programme on Landscape Decisions. She is PI for the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded ‘Craft Futures’, which explores textile practices and the role ‘indigenous innovation’ can play in socio-cultural renewal. She was PI for Design Innovation for New Growth, AHRC FoF from Design in Action, an AHRC funded Knowledge Exchange Hub, where she acted as Co-Investigator. Lynn is an academic partner with the British Council (BC) in the Crafting Futures research programme and was academic lead on Innovation from Tradition an interdisciplinary research programme as part of the Creative Futures Partnership. Lynn is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, Co-Director of the SGSAH Creative Economy Hub and sits on the Editorial Board of CoDesign Journal. Lynn is Programme Director - Research, Programme Leader for the Master of Research and PhD Co-ordinator for the Innovation School. Lynn is interested in supervising interdisciplinary inquiries that blur the boundaries between addressing contextually located socio-cultural challenges and design-led innovation through practice-based critical inquiry. She currently supervises four PhD students and has four PhD completions.