Contact Design Research Centre

 

professor of design

Professor Jane Harris
Tel: 0208 417 4295
email: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk

 

Research Support Manager

Jane Nobbs
Tel: 020 8417 4295
email: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk

 

Research Student Administrator

Emerald Day:
Tel: 020 8417 7416
email: fadaresearch-enterprise@kingston.ac.uk

 

designresearch@kingston.ac.uk

Design Research Centre

 

Research Students

 

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)

 

 

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)