School of Communication & Design

Kerry is Professor of Design Education. She is Dean of the School of Communication & Design Royal College of Art.

Anne is a textile design, colour and materials specialist with national and international experience in research-based design, product development, manufacture and student-centred education.

Dr Barbara Brownie is a design theorist whose research explores art and design in the context of spaceflight.

Dr Danielle Barrios-O’Neill is a groundbreaking scholar in the field of experimental education, recognised for her work developing novel post-disciplinary methods of advanced serious play for societal change.

Angus is a designer, researcher and critical technologist with over twelve years of experience in interaction design and education. His work focuses on post-digital behaviour.

Chris is Director of Intelligent Design Associates Limited, a strategic interdisciplinary 3D design studio focused on the commercial ethical-technical design space.

Dr Elise Hodson is a design researcher and educator whose work brings together design culture and practice with a focus on global production networks and social sustainability.

Dr Rebecca Heaton is an award-winning international academic in art and creative education. She has published, exhibited, managed research and designed curricula globally.

Sam’s research and practice use animation to document the invisible, particularly in scientific arenas. The invisible can be conceptual, temporarily concealed, hermeneutic, overlooked, or implicit.

Luke is an artist and writer whose work explores the shifting and porous edges of our sensoria. Interposing elements of science, philosophy and the occult, he investigates the frameworks and fictions we construct to make sense of the world.

Ashley is Professor of Design Innovation, Postgraduate Research Lead in the school of design at the Royal College of Art.

Christina is an educator and researcher. Her research focuses on effectively utilising new technologies in the design and production of new products.

Freddie is an artist who challenges the perception of knitting as a benign, undervalued domestic activity. Internationally renowned, her practice crosses the boundaries of art, design and craft.

Qian is Professor of Service Design at the RCA. Her academic career spans over two decades, during which she has developed expertise and a strong passion for both Service Design and Design Management, combined with an outstanding track record in research.

Teal is an educator, historian and writer whose research focuses primarily on graphic design history, criticism, design research methods, self-publishing and feminism.

Richard is a visual artist whose practice-led research explores time, geology and cosmology through hand embroidery. His intricate, shifting textile works and installations render the passage of time and human presence physically visible in stitch.

Tom is a sound artist and researcher. His work focuses on the politics and aesthetics of sound and storytelling.

Zowie Broach has been Head of Programme, MA Fashion at the Royal College of Art since 2015.