Nan Osullivan

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ABOUT NAN OSULLIVAN

Nan has a strong background of serving in academic leadership roles and developing and managing impactful initiatives and innovative curriculum change. Nan emphasises the critical position design holds at the nexus of innovation, technology, human and ecological health and societal well-being and builds the self-efficacy of our students to be entrepreneurial and impactful as a part of meaningful aspirations.Nan\'s roles include Head of the School of Design Innovation, Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation (WFADI), Associate Dean (students), Deputy Head of School, and the Programme Director of the First Year and the founding Programme Director of the Design for Social Innovation programme. Nan\'s work seeks to facilitate positive change through design. She was awarded Principal Fellow (HEA) in 2021, acknowledging her global leadership in shifting design education towards greater inclusion of Indigenous and diverse knowledge and systems. Her teaching and research emphasise the roles and responsibilities of design within society and to the environment. Specific to Nan\'s scholarship is the incorporation of Indigenous, place-based knowledge and plural ways of thinking, doing and being as critical components within the narratives we articulate and work we do to drive, social impact, community-building, and sustainable design practices. Nan embraces diversity and her inclusive approach to the teaching, learning and research environment elucidates the multiplicities and intricacies of the designed world, its vocabulary and its possibilities to a global audience. Nan pursues a learning environment in which our design graduates are well-versed, well-equipped, well-prepared and confident enough to confront the complex challenges of our time Nan\'s leadership in the teaching and learning environment saw her awarded the Victoria Early Career Teaching Excellence Award and the Victoria Equity and Diversity Excellence Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Research - Transition Design, indigenous knowledge, inclusive design, social and cultural design innovation https://victoria.academia.edu/NanOSullivan