Brian Dixon
Reviewer @Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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WORK HISTORY
Reviewer @Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Academic book peer reviewer within Design Research for Change Series.(Invited appointment)
EDUCATION
Glasgow School of Art
Postgraduate Certificate, Teaching and Learning in Art and Design
University of the Arts London
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Interaction Design and Information Design
Waterford Institute of Technology
Diploma, Communication Design
University of the Arts London
Masters, Communication Design
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons), Visual Communications
Glasgow School of Art
Postgraduate Certificate, Supervision
ABOUT BRIAN DIXON
Brian is Head of Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in Belfast. Until August 2022, he was Ulster University\'s Interim Research Director Art and Design (UoA32). Recent research experience has seen him act as co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Design Innovation and Land Assets project, which fed into a broader arts and humanities based exploration of landscape decision-making in the UK. In 2020, he was awarded Ulster University\'s ECR, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Distinguished Research Fellowship. Prior to joining the Belfast School of Art, he held academic positions in Central Saint Martins and the Glasgow School of Art. At GSA, he led studio teaching across a portfolio of three masters programmes in the areas of Service Design, Environmental Design and Citizenship. During the same period, he delivered a series of design research projects across the Highland and Islands region, focusing on SME-support, public sector innovation and digital health. He has published widely, with his work appearing in major journals such as Design Studies, Design Issues, CoDesign and Design Management. His first book, Dewey and Design, written for Springer-Nature’s Design Research Foundations series, explores the relationship between John Dewey’s philosophy and design research. He is currently working on a second book for Routledge\'s Design Research for Change Series, entitled Design, Philosophy and Making Things Happen (due for publication 2023). He is a senior fellow of the HEA. He acts a peer reviewer for the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, Routledge, Design Issues and CoDesign. He has acted as a visiting lecturer for Tokyo Metropolitan University and is currently an external examiner at TU Dublin. He received his PhD from Central Saint Martins, investigating how digital maps could be designed to support urban tourists’ and walkers’ situation awareness. His research interests now span a number of domains, including: the theory underpinning contemporary design research methodologies; the role of graphic representations in mediating human-environment relations; and the ways design can contribute to enhancing the sustainability of fragile rural communities.
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