Curriculum Vitae

Spock to Kirk: “It is not design as we know or understand it. Yet they are obviously a designer, they design”.

Research Area

Research through Design, Posthuman-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Philosophy through Design.

Education

2018 — 2023: PhD, Loughborough University.
Thesis title: Things, Be~things, and Beings: Exploring the existence of technological be~things and beings and their implications for our relationships with design, technology, data, and the physical-digital world.

2016 — 2017: MA (Critical) Interaction Design, Goldsmiths University of London.
Thesis title: Designing Practice for Dishevelling Research.

2011 — 2015: BSc Product Design, Brunel University London.
Final year project: Bright a smart cycling jacket.

Career

2025 — Present: Teaching Fellow in Physical-Digital Design at Loughborough University.

2024 — Present: EDI Champion at Loughborough University.

2022 — 2025: Technical Tutor in User Experience at Loughborough University.

2018 — 2022: Casual University Teacher at Loughborough University

2017: Research Intern at Uscreates

2015 — 2016: Product Designer at Innovate Product Design

2013 — 2014: Technical Intern at Philips Lighting UK

Teaching Experience
  • Critical and Speculative Design
  • Interaction Design (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
  • Design for AI Products (Postgraduate)
  • Coding, Electronics, and Prototyping (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
  • UX Software Labs including Axure and Figma (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
  • CAD and CAM
Professional Certificates

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML), Harvard University (HarvardX) Certificate ID: b169f588149546b2af3a332d8a32a645

Awards
  • Seal of Excellence, 101211621 — DRTinyML “Design Research into Tiny Machine Learning”, HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01-01 — MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024. Host institution: Eindhoven University of Technology, Supervisors: Prof. Stephan Wensveen and Dr Mathias Funk.
  • Most Aesthetic Presentation, Ergonomics and Human Factors Conference Doctoral Consortium, 2018
  • First Place, Kaggle Workshop on Machine Learning Fine Tuning, Digital Economy Network Summer School, 2018
Other Activities

2019 — 2020: Postgraduate Research Representative and Lead Representative at Loughborough University

2018: Transition ZoneTM Training. Centre for Doctoral Training: Embedded Intelligence

2014 — 2015: Publications Team, Made in Brunel, Brunel University.