Tom Ainsworth is the Academic Programme Leader for Design and Course Leader for the MA Sustainable Design. His supervisory interests are in Social and Environmental Justices, Progressive and Disruptive Design Research, and Design for Health & Wellbeing.
Current Supervision
Ghazaleh Hassani Fakhrabadi, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Working Title: Future Feminisms in Persian Art, Culture, and Architecture.
Kristen Bullivant, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Working Title: Designing Sustainable Food Futures: a design anthropological approach to cultural value and culinary capital in shaping ‘sustainable’ diets. AHRC Techne funded
Sally Sutherland, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Working title: Design, Culture and Gender Matters: An exploration of design as a socio-material tool for UK public breastfeeding research. AHRC Design Star funded
Conferrals
Merryn Haynes-Gadd, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Thesis Title: Emotional Durability Design Nine: Developing a tool for product longevity. AHRC Design Star funded.
Examinations
PhD Examination, Giovanni Marmont, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Title: Nanopoetics of Use: Kinetic prefiguration and dispossessed sociality in the undercommons. AHRC Design Star funded
PhD Examination, Catherine Speight, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Title: Looking Understanding and Making Meaning: HE Ceramics Students as a ‘Community of Learners’. AHRC Funded.PhD Examination, Tobias Mulling, Ï㽶ֱ²¥. Title: Embracing the gesture-driven interface: design and evaluation of a mid-air gestural approach based on manipulation.