Senior Lecturer in Design Innovation: Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol, 2017–2022
Between 2017 and 2019 I worked as a Lecturer in Design at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol. In 2019 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer, a role I held until left in 2022. Throughout this period I taught across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and was First Year Lead for the undergraduate programmes, with responsibility for curriculum design, teaching delivery and student experience.
The Centre delivered a suite of four-year Integrated Master’s degrees in which students study one of fourteen academic disciplines alongside human-centred design, innovation and venture creation, in addition to a taught postgraduate programme, MPhil and PhD provision. The Centre’s first undergraduate cohort graduated in 2020, with graduates founding businesses at a rate ten times higher than the national average
Between 2017 and 2019 I worked as a Lecturer in Design at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol. In 2019 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer, a role I held until left in 2022. Throughout this period I taught across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and was First Year Lead for the undergraduate programmes, with responsibility for curriculum design, teaching delivery and student experience.
The Centre delivered a suite of four-year Integrated Master’s degrees in which students study one of fourteen academic disciplines alongside human-centred design, innovation and venture creation, in addition to a taught postgraduate programme, MPhil and PhD provision. The Centre’s first undergraduate cohort graduated in 2020, with graduates founding businesses at a rate ten times higher than the national average
Teaching and Programme Development
Teaching at the Centre emphasised challenge-based, collaborative learning, enabling students to apply disciplinary expertise while working in multidisciplinary teams on real-world social, cultural and environmental challenges.
As first year undergraduate lead, I designed and delivered core teaching in human-centred design and research methods and developed an extensive suite of blended learning resources during periods of social restriction. These included a guest interview series, a library-based practice and innovation programme, blended studio workshops using the Mural platform, and a robotic video-streaming system to support hybrid participation.
Across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, I embedded external partners and professional practice into the curriculum, creating learning experiences beyond the university. This included live-client consultation projects, exhibitions with specialist archives and museums, Arctic art residencies, environmental charities, and international conferences and exchanges.
Connected Bristol Conference
The Google Problem
Best of Bristol Award
Being Human Unit
Client-led Briefs Unit
Flexible Innovation BA/BSc
