The Product Design Research group is a collaborative research group that includes researchers from the Schools of Mechanical & Design Engineering, and Creative Arts and Marketing. This is an interdisciplinary research group and involves external collaborations with research groups at McMaster University, University of Sussex, Aston University and others. The group aims to further knowledge and research through these collaborations and by leveraging the connection between research and teaching in the development of postgraduate research project work and external partners. Areas of focus for the group span three areas of design research, practice and pedagogy.
The majority of the research students in the group are located at the ESHI building on the Grangegorman Campus but have wide access to and use the facilities at Bolton St Campus. The group are active in a number of key areas including:
- Sustainable Design
- Design of Consumer Products
- New Product and Enterprise Development
- Design Cultures
- Interdisciplinary Design Pedagogy
Academic and Postgraduate members of the group and their profiles are provided below.
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