Beyond Imagination is a radical £13.2 million 3 year research project at ImaginationLancaster funded by Research England to explore and demonstrate how cutting-edge design research can create a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable world.
As Impact Manager I focus on developing and nurturing key strategic partnerships in collaboration with theme and cluster leads. I lead on the development and and organisation of Impact events and on the development and delivery of the Communications Strategy and PR to promote research outcomes at a local and national and international level. I also work with the Evaluation PDRA and PhD to deliver a range of activities designed to evaluate research outcomes.
I joined ImaginationLancaster 2012 as Design Manager for EU INTERREG PROUD project and then the the AHRC Leapfrog project. My role as Design Manager focussed on activating citizens, public sector and community partners to participate in co-design projects. Facilitating these complex collaborative design process across strategic, management and operational strands in order for new and innovative solutions to emerge with collective ownership of outcomes.
Leapfrog presented at a workshop led by the Public Collaboration Lab – an AHRC funded research partnership between London Borough of Camden and University of the Arts London, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab (UAL DESIS Lab). The workshop explored the value of creative engagement and consultation
A creative, supportive and collaborative learning experience, aimed at equipping and improving your co-design knowledge, skills and contacts
In the final year of PROUD, our Essen partner the Red Dot Design Museum is hosting the PROUD forum. This international forum aims to explore how design as a discipline reacts to social change, presenting the new tools, methods and thought processes used, and together assess their potential in terms of their productive and social value
ImaginationLancaster investigates major areas of modern life from health to travel to help shape the future of two local districts
Working with designers, businesses, academics and the public to promote innovation through new types of Knowledge Exchange
A 5 week online course for design professionals interested in co-design
Write a new chapter in the history of Lancaster's green space
PROUD are designing tools for creative public consultation in a collaboration with Lancaster City Council aiming to improve the uptake, creativity and effectiveness of public consultations
Participants at a Leapfrog and World Design Weeks workshop at Dutch Design Week 2019
The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new approaches to consultation.
An interactive conference, which took place on the 26th and 27th of September 2013 that explored academic engagement with the creative sector as part of The Creative Exchange project