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Research

Themes

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

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.

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 Interaction Order New(?) mobile behaviour in public spaces

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

Service Design Research Research into the development of Service Design as a discipline

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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.

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

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

IDEAS at Daresbury Collaboration for Innovation in Knowledge Exchange

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 ...

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 Acting 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

Leon Cruickshank Open Innovation and Mass Creativity, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive TV service design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Martyn Evans Design, Design Management, Forecasting and Design Futures, Design and Brand Strategy, Product Design and Development, Design Thinking, Product Semantics, New Product Development (NPD)

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

Sabine Junginger Design in the Organization, Design and Change, Design Management, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Product Development, Design Theory

Laura Marinello Team Coordinator

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

Roger Whitham

Design Visualiser

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

+44 (0) 1524 510887

r [dot] whitham [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Roger is a designer and researcher with a range of commercial and academic experience. His specialisations include user experience design, user interface design and software architecture. Roger has industrial experience with a number of major digital advertising agencies in both technical and creative roles. Roger is currently undertaking a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and Design, here at Lancaster University. His research interests include Information Visualisation, Personal Information Management and Individual work practices. His practical research experience centres around Interactive TV and handheld devices.

First CX Management Meeting

The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012

The Creative Exchange Hub Management team members from Lancaster University, Newcastle University and The Royal College of Art met in Newcastle to make key decisions about how the Hub will develop over the...Read full update

New ImaginationLancaster Website Live

After over a year in development, the new ImaginationLancaster website is now live.

The website is intended to provide a platform to make the ImaginationLancaster's wide array of Research and Innovation activities visible to the world. The website provides news feeds for the various...Read full update

Creative IDEAS Book

OutcomeBook

This ImaginationLancaster published book documents the activities undertaken within the HEIF funded Creative IDEAS project. Creative IDEAS addressed one of the more difficult issues in contemporary innovation, the fruitful and mutually beneficial collaboration of large and small...More information

Design PhD Conference 2011

Event7 months and 11 days ago

30^th of June 2011, LICA Building, Lancaster University

Outcomes from the 2011 Design PhD Conference are now available, including Kevin Robert's keynote "Making Things Happen – Designing a better word for everyone".

The Design PhD Conference is a collaborative event between...Read full update

Spreading the Net - ImaginationLab with Senior Managers from Huddersfield University

Building on the ImaginationNets approach to promoting innovation through networks we developed and delivers this workshop and toolkit in a the Imagination facilitation space.

ImaginationNets is a series of tools we have developed over the past 3 years, and in particular with the IDEAS...Read full update

Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Embedding new sustainability thinking into day-to-day activities of civil engineering can result in substantial social, economic and environmental benefits for all stakeholders, but, to date, sustainability in consulting engineering is still more of a reactive activity than a proactive one. Through...Read full update

First CX Management Meeting

The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012

New ImaginationLancaster Website Live

After over a year in development, the new ImaginationLancaster website is now live.

Design PhD Conference 2011

Event7 months and 11 days ago

30^th of June 2011, LICA Building, Lancaster University

Outcomes from the 2011 Design PhD Conference are now available, including Kevin Robert's keynote "Making Things Happen – Designing a better word for everyone".

The Design PhD Conference is a collaborative event between...Read full update

Spreading the Net - ImaginationLab with Senior Managers from Huddersfield University

Building on the ImaginationNets approach to promoting innovation through networks we developed and delivers this workshop and toolkit in a the Imagination facilitation space.

ImaginationNets is a series of tools we have developed over the past 3 years, and in particular with the IDEAS...Read full update

Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering

The Future of TV

Event10 months and 13 days ago

28^th of March 2011, Imagination Lancaster

The Future of TV-workshop brought together experts from BBC’s R&D (Research and Development) section and students from the doctoral programme HighWire at Lancaster University

Together participants generated visions beyond today’s...Read full update

Book Chapters

A service design inquiry into learning and personalisation. / Sangiorgi, Daniela ; Gillen, Julia ; Junginger, Sabine ; Whitham, Roger .

In: Design for services. ed. / Anna Meroni ; Daniela Sangiorgi. Farnham : Gower, 2011. p. 139-146 (Design for Social Responsibility ).

Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Journal Articles

Personal development, participation and design.. / Sangiorgi, Daniela ; Gillen, Julia ; Junginger, Sabine ; Whitham, Roger .

In : Re-public - re-imagining democracy : an online journal. , 2010.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

MAKING INTERACTIVE TV EASIER TO USE:INTERFACE DESIGN FOR A SECOND SCREEN APPROACH.. / CRUICKSHANK, Leon ; TSEKLEVES, E. ; WHITHAM, R. ; HILL, A..

In : The Design Journal , Vol. 10, No. 3, 14.12.2007.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

Themes

Key Projects

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

Creative IDEAS Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing