Meet some of the staff who deliver the programme:
Programme Director Cat Macaulay – Design Ethnography Lecturer Kate Saunderson – Design Lecturer Hazel White – HCI Lecturer: Annalu Waller – Strategic Design and Innovation Professor Tom Inns – Design Professor Mike Press – Design Lecturer Fraser Bruce – Studio Support Specialist Ali Napier
Catriona Macaulay
Cat set up the MSc in Design Ethnography in 2008, having previously designed and led the BSc Interactive Media Design from 2001. She’s passionate about design ethnography, opening locked doors, and her kids. She teaches on two modules (Design Ethnography 1 and 2) as well as leading the ‘Hothouse Summer’ module of live industry projects.
Email: catriona@mac.com
Phone: +44 (0)1382 386522
Skype: catrionamacaulay
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/catmacaulay
Twitter: http://twitter.com/enquiringdesign
Kate Saunderson
Kate joined the MSc Design Ethnography program and continued on as a lecturer in 2010.
Email: klsaunderson@gmail.com
Skype: kate.saunderson
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ksaunderson
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kalsau
Hazel White
Hazel is Director of the Master of Design Programme where graduates learn together in a studio setting applying design thinking, methods and strategies to real world problems. Hazel runs a module on Strategic Information Design Module: exploring methods of using information and data to tell stories to aid decision-making.
Hazel’s research and practice investigates the secret life of our personal possessions. Hazel collaborates with multimedia artists, healthcare professionals, craft makers, computer programmers and designers to explore how engagement with personal objects can be translated into products and systems that have personal meaning in people’s lives. Her recent research, design and consultancy includes work for Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, The University of Colorado, Denver and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.
Email: h.white@dundee.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1382 388288
Skype: hazelonewhite
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/hazel-white
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DesignDundee
Annalu Waller
Annalu is passionate about designing technology for and with real people; her research focuses on involving children and adults of all abilities in design. She has taught Human Computer Interaction for almost two decades and uses real examples from her clinical and research experience to enthuse her students. She also teaches modules on assistive technology and technology innovation at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Email: awaller@computing.dundee.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1382 388223
Skype: annaluwaller
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/annalu-waller/23/458/452
Tom Inns
Tom Inns is Professor of Design at the University of Dundee. He has a background in Engineering, Industrial Design and Product Development. He teaches the Semester 1 module on Strategic Design Thinking. Tom’s research explores how design and its use within business and society are changing. Between 2005-2010 he was Director of the AHRC/EPSRC Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative Co-ordinating 41 design research projects in universities across the UK. Tom regularly facilitates interdisciplinary workshops for organisations in the UK and Europe recent collaborators include: UK Design Council, NESTA, Swedish Industrial Design Foundation, ESF and Ardi Rhone Alps.
Email: t.g.inns@dundee.ac.uk
Skype: tginns
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/tominns
Websites: http://www.theatresofthinking.org
http://www.mdmn.org
http://www.design21.dundee.ac.uk
Mike Press
Professor Mike Press is Chair of Design Policy. He has written widely on design and innovation including authorship of three books, including “The Design Agenda: a guide to successful design management” and “The Design Experience”. He is also a contributor to television and radio programmes on design.
He was joint director of the Home Office funded Design Against Crime research project from 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Sir Misha Black Medal for Innovation in Design Education. He is a former Chair of the European Academy of Design and a member of the editorial board of The Design Journal.
Email: m.press@dundee.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1382 388819
Skype: mikepressuk
LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikepressuk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mikepress
Blog: http://mikepress.wordpress.com/
Fraser Bruce
Fraser is the Academic Co-ordinator for Strategic Design in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. In this role he is responsible for advancing the teaching and research agendas in the areas of Design Management & Policy, Strategic Design & Innovation and Natural Design. Fraser teaches design at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and also supervises PhD research students. His research explores how conventional design approaches can be extended to allow design to impact on more strategic decision-making inside organisations.
Email: f.s.bruce@dundee.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1382 388101
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/fsbruce
Ali Napier
Ali has had enjoyed a varied career – initially a linguist, then a musician, he then settled on software engineering/network management as a way to make a living. He joined the University of Dundee in 2002 to help run the Interactive Media Design undergraduate program with Dr. Cat Macaulay. The course has morphed into Digital Interaction Design, and Ali is responsible for all the supporting technology, as well as teaching Physical Computing, Interaction Design and web technologies. This support spills over into
the MSc in Design Ethnography program. Ali has additional interests in useful social networks and data visualisation. In his copious spare time Ali tries to balance family life with playing keyboards in a band which specialises in a genre known as “Yacht Rock”. Look it up.