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Design academic staff have a wealth of experience and expertise in their research.
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Dr Gabriela Baron
Gabriela's supervisory and research expertise is in the field of strategic design for environmental sustainability, environmental conservation and social innovation.
Research areas
- Design for environmental conservation
- Design for resilient, circular and regenerative human-environment systems
- Sustainable transportation and accessibility in the urban environment
- Methodologies for impact planning and assessment
- Valuing the Arts in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
- Visit Design for Conservation
- Visit gabrielabaron.com
Dr Angus Campbell
Angus is the Head of the Design Programme. His university lecturing, practice-based research and freelance design experience is passionately focused on local and sustainable innovation at the complex nexus of social, technological and ecological systems.
Research areas
- Practice-based design research with specific focus on sustainable innovation to regenerate complex social, technical and ecological systems
- Pluriversal design with interest in development, the Global South, inequality, indigenous knowledge and decolonisation
- Local futures, including appropriate technology, circular economies, and food systems
- Socio-technical innovation for industrial design
- Visit angusdonaldcampbell.com
Dr Allan Fowler
Allan’s research interests are in game development, and understanding the user experience. He has also undertaken considerable work in increasing the representation of minorities in STEM.
Research areas
- Game Design and development
- Augmented and virtual reality
- User experience
- Human computer interaction
- Increasing underrepresented minorities participation in STEM
- Game jams and hackathons for teaching and learning
Dr Diana Albarrán González
Dr Diana Albarran Gonzalez is a design researcher, educator and craftivist, currently the Programme Director of the PhD in Design. Her research explores design and different ways of collaboration from decolonial, intersectional and pluriversal perspectives, interested in collective well-being, Indigenous knowledge, crafts-design-arts, textiles, embodiment, and creativity. With over 18 years of international experience, she integrates a meaningful sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity in different contexts, bringing a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to design teaching and practice.
Research areas
- Decolonising design-craft-art
- Pluriversal design
- Indigenous knowledge(s)
- Social change and social innovation
- Design research methods
- Design for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
- Embodied sense-making, industrial and textile design
Dr Mairi Gunn
Dr Mairi Gunn is an award-winning documentary maker and cinematographer who has shot feature-length dramas, cinematic shorts, documentaries and music videos. Her practice-led research has broken through traditional aspect-ratio limitations to create ultra-widescreen (48:9) videos, 360 cinematic VR and extended reality installations. She uses immersive experiences to build a commons based on the pre-modern concept of productive, non-hierarchical relationships in a shared space. Her intention is always to support and enable intercultural relationships with a view to making space for post-capitalist practices.
Research areas
- Cinematography
- Extended reality
- Radical human ecology
- Post-capitalist economies
- Lean logic