Cherie Southgate FRSA
Senior Lecturer in Design theory at Coventry University, is a professional and experienced lecturer, researcher and designer with a particular emphasis on distance teaching for industrial design alongside her subject specialism of inclusive industrial design, with a proven track record of innovative and successful project work. She worked as a team member of a large EPSRC funded research consortium on the first stage of the i~design project, resulting in a book, for which she was an editor. She contributed to the development of a web-based learning resource on inclusive design for the Royal Society of Arts, providing key concepts for the website design, researching and mapping the content, plus conducting user testing of the website and analysis of the results. She is an external examiner for BA Product Design at Lincoln University and has substantial connections with other UK universities both as a consultant and visiting professor. She has supervised successful PhD candidates. She is an active member of the Design Research Society, being a Council member and a convenor of the Design for Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group.