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Research

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Current Research Activities

A Practice-Based Approach to Design Research Exploring new creative directions in product design to include sustainable principles.

Bridge Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management

Brief Encounters An AHRC Network project to explore new forms of collaborative design processes

CaTalyST: Citizens Transforming Society (Tools for Change) This £1.5 million EPSRC funded 4 year project examines the role of new technology in citizen led ...

Data Arts An investigation into emerging approaches to visualising, interpreting and using data.

DeEP: Design in European Policies Evaluating and Sharing Design Innovation Policies for European Growth

Design and Production for Sustainability Research into the nature and form of functional objects

Design for Wellbeing how design contributes to health and well-being

Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

Innovation Theory/Practice Understanding through challenging: Innovation and Design

Innovation through Improved Service & Design A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the ...

New IDEAS To develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic and ...

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Innovation

Themes

Current Innovation Activities

Bridge Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management

Creative IDEAS Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing

Data Arts An investigation into emerging approaches to visualising, interpreting and using data.

DeEP: Design in European Policies Evaluating and Sharing Design Innovation Policies for European Growth

Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

Innovation Theory/Practice Understanding through challenging: Innovation and Design

Innovation through Improved Service & Design A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the ...

New IDEAS To develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic and ...

PROUD People Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation. Working with designers, ...

The Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pragya Agarwal Location-based services, social networks, spatial cognition, spatial reasoning and representation, places and sense of place, semantics and spatial ontologies

Pam Allen Project Manager: The Creative Exchange

Christopher Boyko Environmental Psychology, Regeneration, Space and Place, Tourism, Town Planning, Urban Design and Behaviour, Urban Sustainability, Wellbeing

Monika Büscher Sociology / Anthropology / Cultural studies of mobilities, Technology (futures), Video Ethnography and Design, Ethnomethodological studies

Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Gemma Coupe Design Manager, PROUD EU INTERREG program

Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Martyn Evans Design, Design Management, Design Futures, Design Strategy, Product Design and Development, Design and Branding, Design Policy, Design Thinking, New Product Development

Drew Hemment Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Smart Cities, Digital Innovation

Vicky Lund Proud Project Administrator

Laura Marinello Team Coordinator

Laura Morris Graphic Design, Knowledge Exchange, Creative Problem Solving, Multidisciplinary Work

Emma Murphy Design Management, Branding (Organisational, Place and Services), Design Thinking, Design Procurement, Briefing Process, Design and Business.

Daniela Sangiorgi Service Design, Design for Public Services, Service Innovation

Stuart Walker Design for Sustainability; Design and Meaning; Practice-based Design Research; Design, Values and Spirituality; Product Aesthetics; Product Design, Localization and Place

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Interactive Structures, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

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Study

Masters Programme

PhD Programme

Lancaster University

Murphy, E, and Garcias, S., (2007) Health and Happiness in the Workplace, RIAS, Edinburgh.

Abstract

A Literature Review, Conference and Conference Report exploring the issue of health and happiness in the workplace.

Publication Date

24^th of March 2007

Authors

Emma Murphy Design Management, Branding (Organisational, Place and Services), Design Thinking, Design Procurement, Briefing Process, Design and Business.