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, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. Working Title: Future Feminisms in Persian Art, Culture, and Architecture.
Kristen Bullivant, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. 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, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. 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, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. Thesis Title: Emotional Durability Design Nine: Developing a tool for product longevity. AHRC Design Star funded.
Examinations
PhD Examination, Giovanni Marmont, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. Title: Nanopoetics of Use: Kinetic prefiguration and dispossessed sociality in the undercommons. AHRC Design Star funded
PhD Examination, Catherine Speight, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. Title: Looking Understanding and Making Meaning: HE Ceramics Students as a ‘Community of Learners’. AHRC Funded.PhD Examination, Tobias Mulling, University of 91¿ì»îÁÖ. Title: Embracing the gesture-driven interface: design and evaluation of a mid-air gestural approach based on manipulation.