AHRC Design Fellows: Challenges of the Future - Mobility
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Wu3
- Type
- N - Research report for external body
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- Commissioning body
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Design Fellow
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- Year
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The author was appointed Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Design Fellow to conduct a thorough review of UK university-led design driven research into mobility innovation. Incorporating feedback from the Design Council, Innovate UK and the Connected Places Catapult, the report summarised data identified by searching, filtering and reviewing more than 100,000 project summaries and related publications funded by the UKRI over the preceding decade, together with dozens of interviews with academic, commercial and government practitioners, and more than 50 online surveys from research and design institutions across and outside of the UK in mobility fields.
Through five such reports – AI & Data, mobility, place, public policy and public services – the AHRC wanted to ‘explore in depth the contribution of university-led Design research to the economic and social challenges facing the UK’. They sought design researchers in UK universities ‘keen to develop a wide and deep awareness of the design research landscape’. The report and its recommendations will be used by the AHRC in planning for future investments and disseminated to academic, business, government and other stakeholders.
The review identified design research in mobility as an emerging area making significant contributions not previously fully recognised despite its strategic, actionable, and inclusive features which bring substantial economic and societal benefit to the field and the country. For the first time it identifies in detail where mobility design research communities are located; the challenges they face developing ideas into funded research and forming consortia; how they reinforce the impact of research in economic, societal and technological transformations; and what obstacles and benefits design-led approaches drive in their research. As a substantive and detailed overview of the UK mobility design research landscape, it also discusses the sector’s position relative to international collaborators and competitors.
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