Pragya is a Reader in Design of Spaces and Places in ImaginationLancaster. Her research interests cover ontologies, spatial information management, spatial cognition, social networks, pervasive and ubiquitous computing in the urban environment, place representation, locative media, adaptive cities, and sustainability.
Christopher is a Senior Research Associate in ImaginationLancaster. His general research and teaching interests include sustainability, regeneration, decision-making processes, urban design, public space, environmental psychology, wellbeing, (qualitative) methods and urban tourism.
Monika is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and part of ImaginationLancaster through her role as director of the Mobilities.lab Lancaster.
Valerie is a Research Associate with ImaginationLancaster working on the Design in Practice project. Her research interests include design for health and wellbeing, design of healthcare facilities, therapeutic environments, and occupational stress and workplace design.
Rachel is Co-Director of ImaginationLancaster and Professor of Design Management. Her research interests cover design management; design policy; new product development; design in the built environment; urban regeneration; design against crime and socially responsible design.
Leon's core interests relate to how technology can enable new relationships between users and designers and through this allow users to become more active in shaping our society, environment and media. This requires a radical change in the way we think about designers and designing.
Martyn is a trained product designer whose research focuses upon the approaches designers use to consider the future, and in turn how this provides insights to consumer behaviour that can be used as innovation triggers.
Drew is Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster. He explores the connections between people, emerging technologies and possible futures. His work focuses on Art and Social Technologies, envisioning social and technological change in a way that is inherently participatory.
Lorenz’s research activity as Research Associate is centred around the engagement between academia and businesses as part of the IDEAS project. His interests cover innovation methods, design management, design in organisations and sustainability in decision making processes.
Sabine explores the meanings, roles and values human-centered design thinking and design methods have for organizations. She studies the links that exist between design and change and the implications this has for design in the organization.
Iona is Teaching Associate on the MA in Design Management. Her research interests cover urban design decision-making, the uses of ICT for knowledge sharing in urban planning contexts and Urban regeneration.
Daniela specialises in Service Design. She investigates services as complex social systems, proposing holistic and participatory design approaches, and exploring ways to facilitate change within service organisations.
Nicky is the Coordinator for ImaginationLancaster and Personal Assistant to its Directors. She is the first contact for enquiries to ImaginationLancaster.
Stuart is Co-Director of ImaginationLancaster and Professor of Industrial Design. His chief research interests are product design and sustainability, product aesthetics and meaning, and design-centred research.
Roger is the Visualiser for ImaginationLancaster. He has a range of design and research experience in both commerical and academic contexts.