Profile
Dr Garrath T. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Experience Design and is part of the Responsible Design Group at Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, UK. Comfortable teaching both practice and theory-based content at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Garrath also supervises doctoral students across a range of responsible design related topics, including fashion practices and identity at the liminality of pregnancy, and responsible service design and emotional attachment.
Garrath received his PhD in Sustainable Design in 2013, with a doctoral thesis titled “Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Feedback Interventions to Reduce Domestic Energy Consumption”. He has since held roles across several RCUK/UKRI grants, most recently as Principal Investigator of the Perpetual Plastic for Food to Go (PPFTG) project (NE/V01076X/1).
With a strong research and design consultancy background, Garrath has written, consulted, and talked internationally on the topics of Experience Design, Product-Service Systems, and Design for Behaviour Change. He was invited by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to participate in the Asia-Pacific Business Forum 2019, Hong Kong, China. As part of the Impact Entrepreneurship Panel, Garrath discussed the role and value of UX within the context of Asia-Pacific business development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Garrath is also currently Co-Convenor of the Design Research Society (DRS) Sustainability Special Interest Group. Design and research activities have featured in public media, including: the BBC, Time magazine, and The Guardian.