Current Staff
Research Associate Seafood Age
Lecturer in Computational Design
Building Information Modelling (BIM), Computational Design, Visualisation, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Digital Architectural Design, Rapid Prototyping
Lecturer in Responsive Architecture
Prototyping, (Re)Programmable Matter, Interdisciplinary Design and Fabrication
Research Development Manager
Lecturer in Future Living
environmental design, energy and buildings, smart living, urban microclimate, liveable cities, comfort and behaviour
Creative Communications Fellow
50th Anniversary Lecturer in Design
Activism in cities, decision-making, environmental psychology, inter/multi/trans-disciplinarity, liveable cities, public space, qualitative research methods, sustainability, town planning, urban density, urban design, walkability, wellbeing
Post-Doctoral Research Associate International
Design Capabilities, Design Policy and Management, Strategic Design, Design Innovation, Product-Service Systems, Human-Centred Design
Lecturer in Participatory Architecture
Community Architecture, Urban Design & Planning, Co-design, Community Engagement, Placemaking, Mutual Learning, Design Innovation, Collaborative Theory & Methods
Lecturer in Urban Design Policy
Urban Design Policy - Smart cities - Urban Engineering- Architect ARB
International Lecturer in Design
Post-Doctoral Research Associate Evaluation
Chair in Design
Senior Lecturer in Architecture | Course Leader BA (Hons) Architecture
Spaces & Tools for Learning, Architecture, Education, Ethnography and Visual Methodologies, Data Visualization
Professor of Speculative and Game Design
Speculative Design, Design Fiction, Game Design, Design as Rhetoric, Design Philosophy, Research through Design, Design Futures, More-Than Human Centered Design, Play, Toys
PETRAS National Centre of Excellence: Impact and Cohort Development Lead
Wellbeing, Health, Futures, Sharing,
Impact Manager for Beyond Imagination
Director of Research ImaginationLancaster, Professor of Design and Creative Exchange
Co-Design, Open Design and Innovation, Design for the Public Sector, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Products, Places)
Future Cities, Urban Design, Drones - UAVs, GIS, Geo-Design, Mapping, Landscape, Visualisation
Professor of Architecture
Executive Director & Professor of Urban Design
Dark Design, Future Cities, Visioning, Spatial Practices
Head of Architecture
Architecture Parametric Architecture Complex Geometric Facades Authorship and Architecture Urban Planning with Grasshopper and Rhino Housing and Living ARB Prescription and Pedagogy Urban Sustainability
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Co-design, design for social innovation, design for knowledge exchange, creative interactions, distributed co-design, digital engagement
Lecturer in Smart Home Futures
Experiential Futures, Experience Design, Interaction Design, Research through Design, Speculative Design, Design Fiction, Internet of Things
Senior Research Associate
Post-Doctoral Research Associate City & Urban
Project and Knowledge Exchange Officer - AHRC Located Making Project
Lecturer in Design Policy & Futures Thinking
Design Fiction, Design for Policy, Internet of Things, Digital Public Space, Knowledge Exchange, Fan Studies
Lecturer in Data Science
Senior Research Associate Sustainability
sustainability, social practices, sustainable consumption, energy
Post-Doctoral Research Associate Prosperity
Design Strategy, Service Design, New Product Development, Digital Innovation, Internet of Things, Data-driven innovation, data-driven design
Lecturer in Workplace Futures
Lecturer in The Theory and Methods of Social Futures
Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Health
Sustainable architecture, Healthy buildings, Indoor Air Quality, Low-cost sensors, Building Science
Senior Research Associate: Population & Policy
design for policy, strategic design, design and governance, knowledge curation
Post-Doctoral Research Associate Factory and Workplace
Researcher in Innovation ecosystems, SME disruptive innovations, Co-designing ecosystem networks, Digital fabrication tools, Visualisation methods, Public and private sector engagements.
Lecturer in Radical Co-Design
Co-Design, Social Impact, Design Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Strategic Design
Research Associate: Experiencing the Future Mundane
Design, Eco-Effective and Responsive Architecture, Digital Fabrication, Virtual and Physical Model Making, Construction, Electronics.
Lecturer in Urban Futures
visual design, information visualisation, speculative design, polyphonic design, urban+rural futures, food, more-than-human, biodiversity
Imagination Co-ordinator
Lecturer in Data Prototyping and Visualisation
Design & Manufacturing, Generative Design, Visualisation, Computational Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Speculative Design
Lecturer in Sustainable Design Futures
(Un)Sustainable technologies, Net Zero, Circular Economy, Research through Design, Prototyping, Visualisation
International Lecturer in Design
Partnerships Co-ordinator
Lecturer in Design
Professor in Global Health Design Innovation
Design for Health & Wellbeing, Global Healthcare Design, Design for Ageing, Design Innovation.
Beyond Imagination Coordinator
International Lecturer in Design
Lecturer in Interaction
Collaboration, Tools, Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation
Research Associate, Home & Living cluster
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Space Syntax Walkability Wayfinding Virtual environments Healthy cities
Current PhD Students
Design Fiction, Speculative Design, HCI, Design Research through Philosophy, Designing for Emotion
Architectural Design, Design Management
Collaborative Design, Community Engagement, Education.
Design for Sustainability, Traditional Knowledge and Practices, Design Management, Practice-based Design Research
Design for Health, Quantified Selves, Life Logging
Design Management for the digital age, New Product Development, User-centered Design
PhD Student / Design and Behavioural Change, User Experience, Packaging Design, Product Design, Consumer Behaviour
Design Thinking, Creative Enterprise, Experience Design, Design strategy, Consumer Behaviors, Omni-channel Retailing
Insight from Service Design to inform the Architectural Design Process
City branding, City image, Strategic design, Cultural production, Brand communication
Design for Policy, Design Management, Technology Transfer, Placemaking, Speculative Design, Visualisation
Evaluation, Education Policy, Community Engagement.
Design against crime interventions, Loss prevention, Design strategy, User experience design, Product design and development
Packaging Design, Online Retailing, Sustainable Design
Automotive Design, Public Transportation, Active Commuting Strategies through Design, Identity in Product Design, Societies and Culture-related components in Product Design.
postcapitalist economics, commons governance, distributed manufacturing
Social Innovation, Social Impact, Design for Health and Wellbeing, Food Design, Service Design, Gender Equality, Sustainable Futures, SDGs
Sustainability, consumption, design for new economics
HCI, User Experience Design, Wellbeing-Driven Design, Design Fiction, Speculative Design
Commons based peer to peer communities, Makers, Non-market based economies, Governance, Digital Public Space, Data accumulation
Design Management, Fashion Business Management, Design Innovation, Co-branding strategy, New product development process
Socially responsible design, co-design, inclusive design, design for policy, creative engagement
Design thinking, Branding, Innovation, Organisation, Management
Design for sustainability; Culturally significant design; Craft-design collaboration
Urban Design; Cultural Research in Cities Development; Smart Cities; Spatial Innovation; Design Management; Visualisation；Marco regulation and zoning system;
Former Staff
Reader in Spaces and Places, September 2009 to December 2012 Place and Sense of Place, Spatial Cognition, Navigational Technologies, Mobility, Information Visualisation, Semantics and Spatial Ontologies Pragya is a Reader in ImaginationLancaster, and leads the 'PLACE Lab'.
Design and Innovation Manager - Lancaster China Catalyst Programme , July 2013 to July 2016 Digital Design, Industrial Design, Visualisation, Design Practice, Design Education
AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship Coordinator
Lecturer. Design Thinking, User Experience, Emerging Design, Country-specific Design, International Design
Multi-user Environment Programmer, AI, Programming, Philosophy, Knowledge Exchange, Pedagogy
Research Associate Research Through Design, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Modelling
Senior Lecturer, April 2011 to July 2018 Sociology / Anthropology / Cultural studies of mobilities, Technology (futures), Video Ethnography and Design, Ethnomethodological studies
Lecturer, April 2009 to October 2011 Design for health and wellbeing, therapeutic environments, workplace design, post occupancy evaluation, community engagement, design for social innovation, codesign
Senior Research Associate - Design Management, May 2012 to December 2016 Innovation, Design Management, European Policy, Business Support
Senior Lecturer in Design, September 2013 to May 2017 Design for Sustainability, Design and Behavioural Change
AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship Communications Officer
Senior Research Associate, December 2014 to December 2015 design for sustainability, risk and resilience, sustainable heritage, design futures
International Lecturer in Design Ethics through Design, Creative Exchange, Digital Public Space, Philosophy of Technology, Feminist Techno-science, Mobilities
Head of Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, August 2007 to August 2015 Design, Design Management, Design Futures, Design Strategy, Design and Branding, Design Policy, Design Thinking, New Product Development
Research Associate Design, Design Futures, Cultural Products and Practices, Regeneration
Design Policy Development; Design Briefing; Design Leadership; Designing against Crime; New Product Development.
Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Smart Cities, Digital Innovation
Research Associate, August 2009 to June 2011 Innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Design Research, Design Management for Sustainability, Design Thinking
Lecturer Design and Innovation, May 2014 to December 2016 Design Management, Innovation, Sustainable Design, Product-Service Systems, Design Process
Design Visualiser
Research Associate, December 2012 to August 2015 Cartographic Design, GIS, Data Visualisation, Place Theory, Space Legibility, Remote Sensing
Senior Research Associate, May 2014 to March 2017 Design Management, Design Thinking, Service Design, Design for Sustainability, Design & Culture
Lecturer, April 2007 to March 2012 Design in the Organization, Design and Change, Design Management, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Product Development, Design Theory
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, January 2018 to August 2018 Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive artefact design, Designing for health and wellbeing, Mindfulness and Mindlessness
Proud Project Administrator, August 2013 to March 2015
Team Coordinator, October 2011 to September 2012
AHRC Design Leadership Fellow Research Associate design activism; service design; social innovation; sustainable futures; fashion and textile craftsmanship
Design Management, Research Methodology & Methods, Branding (Organisational, Place and Services), Design Thinking, Design Procurement, Briefing Process, Design and Business.
Design Visualiser, February 2014 to February 2016 User experience, interaction design, visualisation, information design
Senior Research Associate in Urban Design, January 2016 to January 2017 Architecture and Urban design, Identity and belonging, Superdiversity, Comparative Urban Studies, Socio-spatial practices, Space and Place, Environmental Psychology,Critical Social and Digital media
Design Disruption, Design and Care, Social Innovation, Disciplinarity, Design Interventions
Service Design, Design for Public Services, Service Innovation
Team Coordinator, October 2011 to March 2015
Research Associate, conscientization : praxis intervention : phronesis : barefoot communities : community co-design : interaction design : user led service design
Leapfrog Design Project Manager (maternity cover), May 2017 to March 2018
Imagination Coordinator and PA to Professor Rachel Cooper
Senior Research Associate, September 2020 to July 2021, Data-driven design, Digital health, Co-design, Physical computing
Senior Research Associate, June 2016 to May 2018 Design for Sustainability, Tradition and Transition, Meanings and Values, Crafts and Architecture
Former PhD Students
Design for Sustainability, Handicrafts, Design for Branding & Marketing, Collaborative Approaches, Design Management, Identity/Packaging/Graphic Designs
Understanding Service Design practices and contributions to New Service Development