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Innovating Design Practices Led by Professor Tom Inns


Research focuses on exploring design issues associated with new product and service development, branding and working environments; examining the impact design makes on the way organisations develop their future strategy.



Natural Design: Led by Professor Seaton Baxter


Design has a powerful influence on the attitudes and behaviour of people and the direction of societies. This new concept of Natural Design explores more holistic approaches to design activity based on an understanding of natural systems.



Healthcare Design: Led by Jeanette Paul


Research in this field focuses on the role a design approach can play as a driver of innovation within healthcare and the public sector and how design can contribute to broad concepts of health and wellbeing.



Interaction Design: Led by Professor Mike Press


An area of research which explores the design of new technology enabled experiences associated with developments in digital media and physical design disciplines.



Narratives Discourses and Representation: Led by Professor Mike Press


This research group uses experimental, narrative and pattern-based visual representations to explore structures of meaning, often through hybrid practice, and the discourse framing such practices.



Craft Knowledge: Led by Professor Mike Press


This research field involves exploring craft as a knowledge-based approach to material culture and innovation.

Leader: Professor Georgina 


Design Pedagogy: Led by Professor Mike Press


Research in the field of design pedagogy aimed at advancing curriculum development and delivery methods.

Leader: Professor Mike Press

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design has been rated as the top institution in Scotland for research in art and design, and one of the best in the whole of the UK. The results of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) published on 17.12.08 confirm our position as a world class centre of excellence for research in our disciplines. The RAE provides the most rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the quality of research in academic disciplines throughout the United Kingdom. Previously conducted in 2001, the RAE for 2008 provides evidence of how academic staff and the postgraduate research community in Duncan of Jordanstone has achieved the high aspirations we set ourselves seven years ago, and has secured a place on the world map of research in art and design. 35% of our research is deemed to be ‘world leading’ while a further 20% is ‘internationally excellent’. Only three other institutions in the UK have a higher proportion of ‘world leading’research, out of the total of 72 universities and colleges who submitted research in art and design.

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