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Unit Directors

Dr Sarah Pennington

Sarah’s primary research interests explore the implications and possibilities of feminist matters of care for design practice and design research and how these operate amongst other versions of ‘care’ enacted in design. As such, her interests include more-than-human care, speculative practice and the implications of feminist STS for practice-based design research, human-computer interaction (HCI) design, as well as inventive and creative methods.

Sarah has been involved in HCI research in design for over twenty years, where, from 2000 to 2015 she was a researcher with the Interaction Research Studio.

Professor Alex Wilkie

Alex’s work lies at the intersections of design, science and technology studies and empirical philosophy, variously engaging with human-computer interaction, more-than-human centered design, speculative practices, generalized aesthetics and constructivist thought.

This plays out through numerous projects and collaborations that engage and intervene in a range of substantive areas including climate change and energy, community engagement, the sociology of design practices, the sociology of expectations and futures, healthcare and interactive technologies, government policy, user studies as well as public engagement with science and technology.

51³Ô¹ÏÍøºÚÁÏ Members

• Dr Michael Guggenheim, Department of Sociology
• Dr Tobie Kerridge, Department of Design 
• Carolyn Kirschner, Department of Design
• Dr Thomas Marriott, Department of Design
• Tess McKenzie, Department of Design
• Dr Tim Miller, Department of Design
• Bethany Rigby, Department of Design
• Cindy Strobach, Department of Design
• Dr Mathilda Tham, Department of Design
• Mike Thompson, Department of Design

External Members

• , University of Vic & Elisava Design School, Barcelona
• , Georgia Institute of Technology
• , Northeastern University
• , Politecnico di Milano
• , Sheffield University
• , School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• , Malmö University
• , Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• , Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
• , University of Exeter
• , University of Warwick
• , UC Santa Cruz
• , Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• , University of Washington
• , Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
• , Institut für Grundlagenforschung zur Philosophiegeschichte, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• , Design Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
• , Queen Mary, University of London
• , School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• , UCL Institute of Education
• , University of Bath

Postgraduate Research Students

• Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves
• Tom Critchley
• Nina Cutler
• Sarah Kilkenny
• Axel Meunier
• Liliana Ovalle