Design Management, Research Methods, Design Innovation, Design Policy, Brand Manifestation
Dr Emma Murphy is The Innovation School's Innovation Research Fellow, with responsibility for a range of research projects across the Innovation School Portfolio. Emma is also a Mentor to Early Career Researchers.
Emma's research interests are based around the convergence of design, management and policy, including research methods and methodology, business models, design procurement and commissioning, and managing creativity and innovation.
Emma's research projects include “Taking the Artwork Home”, a £125,000 AHRC-funded project looking at engagement with the arts through digital technologies, “Design Values”, a £230,000 AHRC-funded project exploring the role of design in innovation, and a £1.2 million AHRC-funded project entitled “Leapfrog: transforming public sector consultation bymore...
Dr Emma Murphy is The Innovation School's Innovation Research Fellow, with responsibility for a range of research projects across the Innovation School Portfolio. Emma is also a Mentor to Early Career Researchers.
Emma's research interests are based around the convergence of design, management and policy, including research methods and methodology, business models, design procurement and commissioning, and managing creativity and innovation.
Emma's research projects include “Taking the Artwork Home”, a £125,000 AHRC-funded project looking at engagement with the arts through digital technologies, “Design Values”, a £230,000 AHRC-funded project exploring the role of design in innovation, and a £1.2 million AHRC-funded project entitled “Leapfrog: transforming public sector consultation by design”.
She has published her work nationally and internationally and is a peer reviewer for the ESRC as well as a variety of international journals including The Design Journal, The Swedish Design Research Journal, The Journal of Organisational Behaviour and Palgrave MacMillan.
Emma supervises PhD students in the areas of design management and design education.
Emma spent two years as Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer for the Innovation School's Postgraduate Programmes across Glasgow and Forres campuses, and with the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
Prior to joining GSA, Emma was a Lecturer and Researcher at ImaginationLancaster, a creative design research lab within Lancaster University, and also Head of Marketing and Business Development at international design consultancy, Graven.
Her research activity relates to the GSA Strategic Themes "Design Innovation", and "Creative Education".
PhD Design Management, DJCAD, University of Dundee
MA (Hons) Management Studies with French, University of Aberdeen
