Design Innovation and Socially Responsible Design

This research cluster reflects a well established synergy of research interests, and encourages new research relationships and directions, including a focus on:

• Design management
• Design strategy
• Design against crime
• Design for the built and human environment
• Product and fashion design
• Environmental design
• Socially responsible design
• Design pedagogy

With further research synergies within the creative industries, in the development of public services, in health and with the built environment via both the design of urban spaces and design against crime.

Funding has been obtained from sources such as the EPSRC, AHRC, British Council, Momenta (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships), AGIS and the European Commission.

Members of the Design Innovation and Socially Responsible Design research cluster include both senior pro-active researchers and emerging embryonic researchers with multi-disciplinary backgrounds. All are engaged in both theory and practice, in a wide-ranging spectrum of activity across design research.

Key researchers in this cluster were returned successfully to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and will continue to contribute towards the Research Excellence Framework 2014. A good proportion of our output is case-based and therefore more easily captured and already incorporates evaluation and impact analyses for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework return. Much of the work in this cluster focuses on generating such research outcomes from enterprise activity.

Research Cluster Leader: Andrew Wootton
T: +44 (0)161 295 2693
a.wootton@salford.ac.uk