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At Kingston University Postgraduate Research provides a highly valued and vital contribution to the broader research environment. Innovation and research excellence in practice and theoretical Design thinking is fostered in recognition of how Postgraduate Research can both inform and pioneer future scenarios globally. The Faculty of Art and Design’s wider networks support participation in national and international conference and exhibition opportunities.

 

Research students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) based in the Schools of Design and Architecture and Landscape Design are located next to the newly refurbished Learning Resource Centre in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Researchers have access to extensive state of the art workshops that support metal, foundry, ceramics, wood, computer fabrication, digital media studios, photography and film related practice.

 

Kingston University is committed to building capacity of postgraduate research, PhD Mphil and MRes in all key Design areas.   In collaboration with Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London, Design Research at Kingston University received AHRC Skills Development Funding.   This consortium aims to enhance provision of skills development in Practice-based and Practice-led Design Research across the three partner institutions in collaboration with business, industry, charities, cultural and public sector organisations to form a national centre of excellence located in London.

 

Current Students

 

Dina Belluigi - Title to be confirmed

 

Carolyn Bew - Gesture, Markmaking, Drawing

 

John L. Clark - The design of community buildings and landscapes as sustainability learning spaces that encourage sustainable behaviour (PhD) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

 

Michael Crossman - Exploration of the Role of Design in Innovation (PhD)

 

Kevin Dowd - Negotiating Political Communication in Contemporary Visual Culture throughout the UK and Ireland (PhD)

 

Helen Goodwin - Public Life by Design? (PhD)

 

Pablo Helguera - Title to be confirmed

 

Ninela Ivanova - The Human-Mould-Fashion Relationship: Fungi Applications for Future Design Scenarios in Fashion and Textiles Fabrication (PhD)

 

Lina Khashogji - An Analysis of the impact of screen based media as an educational tool in the social development of Saudi Arabia. In the context of knowledge media and school education. (PhD)

 

Ji-Hee Leem - Why are producers still using anthropomorphized animal characters in animation made for children? (PhD)

 

Donna Loveday - Title to be confirmed (PhD)

 

Israel Nagore Setien - Adaptability in Collective Housing of the 21st Century (MA Research)

 

Regina Peldzus - Environmental design for long-duration space craft & station interiors (PhD) AHRC Scholarship

 

Alexandra Reynolds - How can digital media produce new ways of reading archival histories & inform contemporary curatorial practice (PhD)

 

James Ritson - Sustainable development of the suburban built environment (PhD)

 

Juliette Sallin - Generative Fashion. Can generative design methods inform a new fashion aesthetic (PhD)

 

James Self - Investigating the process of digital design development where there is a reduction of sensory information (PhD) Further details. HEFCE funded

 

Riada Shakiry - e-commerce - branding and the user experience (MA Research)

 

Annalisa Sonzogni - Site-Specific Modern. Photography, Moving Image and Architecture (PhD)

 

Graduated students

 

Mark Ballance - Issues affecting Artisan Micro-Enterprises in Under Developed Countries: A Zimbabwean Case Study (MA by Research in Sustainable Design)

 

Charlotte Coetzee - Sustainable product design to alleviate poverty and inequality: Exploring the linkages between the arts and crafts sector and the corporate sector in South Africa (MA by Research) Audi Scholarship

 

Rosie Hornbuckle - Redesigned Futures: Creating new modules for utilising surplus & waste resources in design practice (PhD) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

 

Emily King - New Faces: type design in the first decade of device-independent digital typesetting (1987-1997) (PhD)

 

Lucia Lu - The design of community buildings and landscapes as sustainability learning spaces that encourage sustainable behaviour (MA by Research) Audi Scholarship

 

Miles Park - Optimising product lifespans: The development and testing of product design strategies to minimise product obsolescence (PhD)

 

Emma Powell - Selected contemporary creators' use of rejectamenta (PhD)

 

Shibboleth Shechter - Landscape Urbanism - a design practice for sustainable suburbs? MRes AHRC Studentship Award

 

Jooyoung Sohn - Theories and Practices of Meaning-Making Among Design Professionals: An Empirical Case Study in the Design Museum, London (PhD)

 

Maiko Tsutsumi - The Poetic of Everyday Objects: A theoretical and practical investigation into the materiality and embodiment of meaning in designed objects, with special reference to furniture and product design practice after 1988 (practice based (PhD)

 

Nicola White - Italian Fashion Industry Post-War (MPhil)