Tom Ainsworth is the Subject Area Lead for Architecture and Design and the MA Sustainable Design Course Leader. His supervisory interests are Social and Environmental Justices, Progressive and Disruptive Design Research, and Design for Health and Wellbeing.
Current Supervision
Chantal Spencer, 118¿ª½±. Working Title: Moving Beyond Participatory Models to Methodologies of Radical Intersectional Equity. 118¿ª½± Funded Scholarship.
Kristen Bullivant, 118¿ª½±. Working Title: Designing Sustainable Food Futures: a design anthropological approach to cultural value and culinary capital in shaping ‘sustainable’ diets. AHRC funded.
Sally Sutherland, 118¿ª½±. 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, 118¿ª½±. Thesis Title: Emotional Durability Design Nine: Developing a tool for product longevity. AHRC Design Star funded.
Examinations
PhD Examination, Giovanni Marmont, 118¿ª½±. Title: Nanopoetics of Use: Kinetic prefiguration and dispossessed sociality in the undercommons. AHRC Design Star funded
PhD Examination, Catherine Speight, 118¿ª½±. Title: Looking Understanding and Making Meaning: HE Ceramics Students as a ‘Community of Learners’. AHRC Funded.PhD Examination, Tobias Mulling, 118¿ª½±. Title: Embracing the Gestural Interface: Designing and Evaluating a Mid-air Gestural Approach based on Manipulation.