Designing for Service – Key Issues and New Directions – Features chapter by Professor Ian Gwilt

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Service design is the activity of planning and organising people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between service provider and customers. It is now a growing field of both practice and academic research. Designing for Service brings together a wide range of international contributors to map the field of […]

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Monday 6 March 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Dr Lucy Melville-Richards (Bangor University)

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Speaker: Dr Lucy Melville-Richards (Bangor University) Title: Exploring the Science & Craft of Co-production: People, Objects & Implementation Dr Lucy Melville-Richards splits her time between practising as a mental health nurse and working as a practice educator. She recently completed her PhD, a case study exploring ‘boundary objects’, shared things and ideas around which stakeholders collaborate to translate evidence into practice through […]

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Professor Paul Atkinson to give lecture at Oxford University on 26 November 2016

Front cover of Professor Paul Atkinson's 'Delete' published by Bloomsbury

Professor Paul Atkinson has been invited to give a lecture about the research behind his book Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware to Masters students in History of Design at Oxford University on Saturday 26 November 2016. While most historical accounts of the development of computer design focus on specific computers or manufacturers, examining the success stories of hardware […]

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Professor David Swann’s ABC Syringe selected for The Design Museum collection

David Swann's ABC Syringe

Professor David Swann’s invention ABC Syringe (A Behaviour Changing Syringe) has been selected by The Design Museum for its long-term collection. The groundbreaking ABC Syringe also featured in the Design Museum’s re-launch events which marked the move to its spectacular new home on High Street Kensington, London. The ABC syringe is featured in a short film commissioned for the re-launch, alongside such other […]

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Dr David Swann’s ABC syringe to feature in BodyWorks on Tour

David Swann's ABC Syringe

Dr David Swann‘s invention ABC Syringe (A Behaviour Changing Syringe) is to feature in the Careering into Science interactive science show, part of the BodyWorks on Tour Programme engaging school audiences across Scotland. The interactive show includes a segment on chemistry skills and tells the story of the ABC Syringe and how colour-changing technology can help save lives. The ABC […]

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Wednesday 16 December 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Paul Atkinson (Design & Design History, SHU)

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Title: The Electric Guitar – A Design History Speaker: Professor Paul Atkinson (Design & Design History, SHU) The electric guitar is a unique thing: at once ubiquitous and quotidian, and yet extraordinary and distinctive. Its sound is heard every day by millions of people in many different forms of music, consumed unconsciously by many, very consciously by some. Electric guitars […]

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Tuesday 17 November 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Eve Stirling (Design, SHU)

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Title: Ways of knowing Facebook: Influences of a practice-based approach on research on everyday digital life Speaker: Dr Eve Stirling (Design SHU) Practice-based research is the dominant research approach in Art and Design and the notion of making as a research approach is gaining attention in disciplines beyond art and design (through the encouragement of multi- and trans- disciplinary ways […]

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Visual Methods with Children and Young People – Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue – Dr Eve Stirling (Eds)

Book cover of Visual Methods with Children and Young People - Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue published by Palgrave Macmillan UK featuring a child looking into a camera

Visual Methods with Children and Young People – Academics and Visual Industries in Dialogue focuses on using visual research methods with children and young people. Featuring insights from academic experts and established professionals from visual industries, it explores a range of issues from visual ethics to children’s interaction with place. The collection touches upon key themes such as ethics in […]

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Thursday 04 June 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with SHU CCRC’s Heath Reed, Ivan Phelan and Shirley Lindley

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Title: Medic of the Future: Exploring the integration of immersive Virtual Reality with haptic and tactile feedback in a medical training environment for the MoD Speakers: CCRC’s Heath Reed, Ivan Phelan and Shirley Lindley We will outline how the different elements of this type of training was integrated into a virtual environment using haptic technology developed at SHU. We used […]

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