I approach graduate research training and supervision as a commitment to mentoring peers and nurturing their professional development and personal growth. I am a passionate and highly experienced research supervisor with over 40 PhD and Master by Research completions and have worked extensively in graduate research leadership positions.
I welcome enquiries for supervising research projects in Design History and Theory, Craft History and Theory, Latin American Cultural History, and correlate fields. Among other areas, research focus can include exhibition histories, histories of nationalism and national identity formation through craft or design, gender theory, transnational and intersectional histories, critical archival methods and decolonial thinking and praxis
PhD Supervisions (ongoing)
Ashley Eriksmoen, 2023-2026, ‘‘Making with’: counteracting conventional material production and consumption through ecofeminism, adversarial design, and circular economy approaches’, PhD Candidate, UNSW Art & Design
Tzu-Mei Stewart, 2022-2025, ‘Utopias and the Architectural Imaginary: Desire, identity and otherness in modern architecture’, PhD Candidate, UNSW Art & Design
Bridgit Moran, 2021-2024, ‘Analysing Craft Policy in Australia 1971-2011’, PhD Candidate, UNSW Art & Design
PhD Supervisions Completed
Dr Natalie O’Connor, 2022, ‘The Nature of Redness: A Practice-Based Research into Red Pigments to Offer a New Understanding of Material Colour’, UNSW Art & Design
Dr Emin Artun Özgüner, 2020, ‘Inheritance / Disavowal: Commemorating and Representing the Nation-State in Turkey from Empire to Republic, 1908-1950s’, Royal College of Art
Dr Yun Wang, 2019, ‘The History of Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design in the Context of Globalisation’, Royal College of Art
Dr Yongkeun Chun, 2019, ‘Displayed Modernity: Advertising and Commercial Art in Colonial Korea’, Royal College of Art
Master by Research Supervisions Completed
Catherine Hill, 2017-2018, ‘Objects of Empowerment: Posters by the See Red Women’s Workshop’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION
Elena Jarmoskaite, 2017-2018, ‘Bad Blood: Motivated Reasoning in the Visual Communication Promoting Anti-Vaccinationist Views in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Century United States of America’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION
Lisa Rotzinger, 2017-2018, ‘Bruce Archer and Research at the Royal College of Art (1961-2002). Theoretical Frameworks for Research in Design in the Context of an Institution’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Eva Kasser, 2017-2018, ‘The Functionalism Debate: Connecting the divided Germany. On the Theoretical Education of Industrial Design in the former German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic Germany, with a special focus on the period before Germany's Reunification’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Ayelet Shats, 2016-2017, ‘Native Style: Ethnographic Dress Collections, Khaki Clothes and the Omnipresence of Fashion in Mandatory Palestine and Israel 1917-1967’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION
Ruth Sykes, 2016-2017, ‘'Sexism, Our Stock-in-trade': Feminism and Female Graphic Designers’ educational and professional experiences in London during feminism’s joint wave’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Guglielmo Rossi, 2016-2017, ‘The Collective Production of Radical Politics in Print: Libertarian Culture and Publishing in the 1970s’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Alex Heslop, 2015-2016, ‘Open Shop: A Reassessment of London's Printing Trades, 1980-1992’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION and Best Dissertation Prize.
Derya Adiyama, 2015-2016, ‘An Identity Dilemma: ‘Turkish(less)-ness’ in Industrial Design in Turkey’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Janna Fuller, 2016, ‘What Somali boarding schools and design theorists can teach Detroit about improving its broken education system’, Global Innovation Design Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London. Awarded DISTINCTION.
Clea Jentsch, 2016, ‘Own Less, Live More’, Global Innovation Design Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London. Awarded DISTINCTION.
Fiona O’Leary, 2016, ‘An Awkward Identity: The Construction of Identity through Experience of Assistive Aids’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art. Awarded DISTINCTION
Catherine Ka Hei Suen, 2016, ‘Five Dimensional Sensorial Strategies’, Innovation Design Engineering Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Jorge Cartes Sanhueza, 2016, ‘Mass Customization: an ethical dilemma for designers: cosmetic or functional customized design?’, Innovation Design Engineering Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Oliver Lehtonen, 2016, ‘Trans-industrial designer generations: Opportunities and Responsibilities in the Design Industry’, Innovation Design Engineering Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Elodie Soler, 2016, ‘Food, Design & Behavioural Economics’, Innovation Design Engineering Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Luca Alessandrini, 2016, ‘The Role of Makers Revolution in the Italian Contemporary Economic Scenario’, Innovation Design Engineering Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Jan Samuel Libin-Libera, 2016, ‘Failure and Experiment: the other side of progress’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art
Vaclav Mlynar, 2016, ‘In Design We Trust: The importance of creativity in shaping our future’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art
Kawther Alsaffar, 2016, ‘The Value of Culture in Design: a non-Western global perspective’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art
Felicie Eymard Ericsdottir, 2016, ‘Where absence and emptiness are more present that anything tangible’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art
Jane Kim, 2016, ‘Memory’, Design Products Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art
Yeting Jiang, 2016, ‘How design inspired by national culture can succeed globally?’, Global Innovation Design Master's Programme, School of Design, Royal College of Art/Imperial College London
Laura Quintrell, 2014-2015, ‘Materialising Informal Empire: Great Britain and Argentina on Display at the Exposición Internacional del Centenario (1910)’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Miranda Vane, 2014-2015, ‘Designing the Delicious: A Design History of Contemporary Food Making’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Sophie Farrelly, 2014-2015, ‘The Design of the Children's Nursery from 1850 to 1914’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Tania Messel, 2013-2014, ‘Unity in a Tangled World. The Introduction and Development of Corporate Identity programmes in France, 1950-1975’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION
Everton Barreiro, 2013-2015, ‘The Hybrid Man in the Tropics': Flavio de Carvalho's New Look and Histories of Brazilian Modernist Dress’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Steffi Duarte, 2013-2014, ‘Agents of the Struggle: Posters by the ANC in Exile and European Solidarity Movements Against South African Apartheid, 1960-90’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Kara Bargmann, 2015-2016, ‘Manifesting Destiny: The American Craft Council, the Society of North American Goldsmiths and the influence of craft communities on the contemporary jewellery practitioner 1939–1984’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Susan Newell, 2015-2016, ‘Ceramics as ‘applications of geology’, an exploration of the collection of the Museum of Practical Geology, c. 1835–1860’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Kaisu Savola, 2014-2015, ‘When Beauty is Not Enough. A Short History of the Scandinavian Design Students’ Organisation 1966-1969’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION
Ellen Rivers, 2014-2015, ‘Designed Futures in Omni Magazine 1978-88’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Josephine Tierney, 2013-2014, ‘Designing Taste: a Re-examination of British Printed Textiles 1830-1899’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme. Awarded DISTINCTION and Best Dissertation Prize.
Georgia Cherry, 2013-2014, ‘Defining the 'Dark Light'. The Mediation of X-Ray in England, 1895-c.1906’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme
Thomas Warham, 2013-2014, ‘Chairman Mao’s Parades: Spectacle and Spectatorship in the Festivities of Chinese National Day, 1949-1976’, V&A/Royal College of Art History of Design Programme