Our people

Textile Design and Coloration, Design Futures (Textile Specialism), Cultural Heritages and Humanities, Diversity in Higher Education, Academic Citizenship, Co-Director Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity.

Engineering science applications in design, engineering methods for design, sustainable product design, design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA).

Design Pedagogy, Design Management, UX/UI Design

Sculpture, Public Art, Environmental Art, Drawing, Ceramics, Painting, Printmaking, Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, CAD design, Digital Art, 3D modelling, Interdisciplinary Practice

Mental Health First Aider
Health and well being, traffic injury causation and prevention, injury outcomes, injury scaling/coding, bus passenger safety, transport safety.

Urbanism, Graphic Design, and Cultural Heritage

Art Theory, Performance Art, Critical Theory, Visual and Cultural Studies, Contemporary Art History, Marxist Feminism, Social Reproduction Theory, Extractivism, Art and Ecology, Petrocultures, Science and Speculative Fiction.

Contemporary theatre; Applied Theatre and Theatre in Education for Health and Wellbeing; Adaptation Theory and Practice

Co-Director Internal Communications
Sustainable design, packaging design, consumer behaviour, circular economy, research methods.

Socially-engaged design methods; all things prototyping; front-end stakeholder engagement; living lab methodology; design for (with) the Global South; usability testing; choice-based methods; design interviews; randomized-controlled trials

Interaction(s) between performance, philosophy and politics; practice-based theatre translation; film and theatre adaptation; fictocriticism; storytelling

Participatory Planning, Mobility Justice, Global South, Tactical Urbanism, Urban Design

Transport human factors, sleepiness, fatigue, transport safety, occupational safety

Associate Dean for Teaching, Director of People and Culture

Design research, design methods, design ergonomics, physical ergonomics, product perception, product semantics, branding,

automotive seating design, autonomous vehicle interiors, musculoskeletal health, healthy ageing, inclusive design, vehicle ergonomics and health.

Animation, Storytelling, Illustration, Graphic Design.

Heat stress Cold stress Thermal comfort clothing heat transfer Mathematical modelling of physiological processes Clothing and climate perception Haptical interaction with textiles

Digital Product and Experience Design (UI/UX)

Fashion Design, Product Development

Drawing, illustration, visualisation, digital technology, advanced imaging and microscopy, participatory research, design, colour, laser cutting and materiality, fine art printmaking.

Sustainable Design, Design for Sustainable Behaviour, Material Change, Design for the Circular Economy, User-centred Design

Historic art and architecture; conceptual art; curation.

Digital human modelling; inclusive design; occupant accommodation; automotive interior packaging; workplace design; modular product design; drawing research.

Illustration, Graphic Design, Animation, Advertising, Photography

User Experience Design (UX), Extended Reality (XR), Anthropometrics, Human Factors, Usability, Academic Writing.

Industrial Design, Design for Digital Fabrication, Design Education & Design research.

Biotechnology, Circular Design, Design for Sustainability, Materials Science, Textile Chemistry, Textile Design. Admissions Tutor for Textile Design BA, Co-Director of Global Engagement.

Illustration, children’s picture books, graphic novels and comics, sequential narrative branding, animation, storyboarding, character development, film, storytelling in site-specific and game world-building contexts.

Graphic Design, Information Design

Human Factors & Ergonomics, Patient Safety, Policy vs Practice, Resilience Engineering, Hierarchical Task Analysis.

Writing for the storytelling industry - including playwriting, screenwriting, radio and audio. Dramaturgy, theatre and performance, women in early radio, comedy writing and performance.

Sculpture, installation, site-specific practices, drawing, CAD, and the history of contemporary art.

Sustainable Product Design & Manufacture (inc Medical Devices), Flexible and Printed Electronics, Energy Storage & Harvesting, Additive Manufacturing (2D and 3D printing), Design for AI Products and Services, Design Education HE

Director of Staff Development
Urbanism, Graphic Design, Cultural Heritage

Creative writing, Fine Art, Philosophy.

Experience Design; Industrial Design; Responsible Design.

Inclusive design, digital inclusion, human-computer interaction, accessibility, usability.