Doctorado en Diseño en Northumbria, Reino Unido

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Northumbria University School of Design invites applications for PhD
studies focused on its eight areas of research interest.  Selected
applicants will be nominated for competitive university studentships to
fund three years of PhD study.  Interested applicants should contact the
relevant research grouping lead (see details below) as soon as possible,
complete an application form, and submit before the deadline of May
13th, 2011.

The School has significant research activities and outputs across eight
research themes, organised into three groupings that combine to express
the  fundamentals of design research (i.e., that we make changes by
making sense through making connections).

The research themes for Making Connections are: Making and Design
Issues. This grouping focuses on what design should do. Its two themes
focus on the fundamentals of designing through making and designing
through reflecting on design practice at all scales. Applicants are
sought with an interest in design craftsmanship, new luxury, the roles
of touch or storytelling in design, design activism, the future roles of
design, and fundamental aspects of design processes.

The research themes for Making Sense are: Experimental Media, Future
Materials for Living and Insights. This grouping focuses on what design
could do. Its three themes focus on the potential for new design content
and process within design's core tributary disciplines of creative arts,
science and technology, and the human sciences and humanities.
Applicants are sought with an interest in: the creative potential of
communicative media (static, dynamic and interactive); the use of new
printable, paintable and programmable materials capable of being made
intelligent through design; and the untapped potential for design within
knowledge, insights and practices from the human sciences and
humanities.

The research themes for Make Changes are: Design Value Innovation,
Social Innovation and Design for Social Equity. This grouping focuses on
what design can do. Its three themes focus on demonstrating the value of
design through innovation with commercial, community and global
collaborators. Applicants are sought with an interest in: commercial
innovation, design management for business, service design, public
sector innovation, third sector innovation, responsible design practice,
sustainable design, design against crime, creative entrepreneurship or
workers rights for developing countries, and co-design with
disadvantaged groups.

Research group leads:
Making Connections: Professor Paul Rodgers, email:
paul.rodgers@northumbria.ac.uk 
Making Sense: Professor Gilbert Cockton, email:
gilbert.cockton@northumbria.ac.uk 
Make Changes: Professor Robert Young, email:
robert.young@northumbria.ac.uk 

Please send applications, and if you have any additional enquiries, to
Mark Grant, email: m.grant@northumbria.ac.uk, tel:+44 (0)191 243 7536   

Professor Paul Rodgers
Northumbria University : School of Design
City Campus East : Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST : UNITED KINGDOM
m : +44 (0)778 718 2119
t : +44 (0)191 227 4111
f : +44 (0)191 227 4655
e : paul.rodgers@northumbria.ac.uk
w : www.northumbria.ac.uk/design

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