Innovative Design Lab

Vision

Our vision is for increasing the value of design whilst reducing costs, enabling the society to benefit from high quality environments and products that are supportive of users needs and activities. This vision will be achieved through scholarly research and industrial engagement. More specifically, the potential of design innovation, collaboration, co-design and lean strategies to improve design and production processes and products will be examined.

Objectives

• To advance theory and methods of design and of cognate areas
• To undertake solution-driven research with a global reach, addressing current challenges and enabling ideas to flow across disciplinary boundaries
• To produce outcome driven, internationally leading research outputs of relevance, impact and rigour
• To become an external relations centre for strategic partnership building, developing networks for collaboration in research and teaching, sharing expertise nationally and internationally

Contact

Please get in contact with us if you have any questions about our research or undertaking postgraduate research in the School of Art, Design and Architecture.

Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos: P.Tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk

For further information on how to apply for research degrees or to check the progress of a current application please contact our Research Manager, Emma Bowden: E.Bowden@hud.ac.uk

Research Opportunities

MA/MSc by Research

A Master's by Research allows you to undertake a one year (full-time) research degree. It contains little or no formal taught component. This type of study gives you the chance to explore a research topic over a shorter time than a more in-depth doctoral programme.

Research Master's students choose a specific project to work on and have a greater degree of independence in their work than is the case with a taught Master's course.

We offer MSc by Research degrees in Architecture, Art & Design and Fashion & Textiles.

We also offer MA by Research degrees in Architecture, Art & Design and Fashion & Textiles.

PhD

A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This programme allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

A full-time PhD is a three year full time or six year part time programme of research, culminating in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis.

We offer PhDs in Architecture, Art & Design and Fashion & Textiles.