Paul Rodgers

Professor of Design

University of Strathclyde

Speaker Biography

Paul A. Rodgers is Professor of Design at the University of Strathclyde. Previously, he held Professorial positions at Imagination, Lancaster University and Northumbria University School of Design. Earlier, he was Reader in Design at Edinburgh Napier University and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering Design Centre. He has over 25 years of experience in product design research and is the author of more than 170 papers and 16 books including The Routledge Companion to Design Research (1stand 2nd edition). His books have been translated into several languages including Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Taiwanese. From 2017 to 2021, he was the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Leadership Fellow in Design where he initiated a number of projects under the Design Research for Change banner that highlighted the positive and wide-ranging social, cultural, environmental and economic impact design research achieves in the UK and abroad. He is the Series Editor for Routledge’s Design Research for Change book series – https://www.routledge.com/Design-Research-for-Change/book-series/DRC. His current research interests explore the discipline of design and how disruptive design interventions can enact positive change in health and social care and elsewhere. Rodgers was recently awarded over £4.625M funding from UKRI/ AHRC as part of the Design Museum’s Future Observatory for research that aims to transform the health ecosystem through design-led innovation, while contributing to the UK’s urgent net zero targets. Design HOPES (https://designhopes.org), led by Rodgers at the University of Strathclyde, is one of only four Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) Hubs in the UK.

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