Full Description
This book is about how to be a design academic. In another words, how to manage the various challenges, requirements, and processes that come with both the everyday and extra-ordinary parts of an academic role in design fields (from architecture, urban design, interior design and landscape architecture, to fashion, industrial, interaction and graphic design).
The book is organised in two parts - Part 1, Starting out and Part 2, Becoming a Leader. It includes real-life experiences of actual academics and offers a wide range of experiences of authors from early career researchers to full professors and heads of schools. It contains all aspects of academic life, including the highs and lows of teaching, research, leadership, and managing your working life and your career.
This book is perfect for academics, aspiring academics, and research students in a wide range of design fields.
Contents
1. Being a Design Academic: From Beginning to Winning. Part 1: Starting Out. Section 1: Crafting Your Unique Career Path. 2. Being a Design Academic: Design Process, Practice, Thinking. 3. Industry to Academia: The Enhanced Academic. 4. A "Non-Designer" in a Design School. Section 2: Being an Effective Design Researcher. 5. Getting a PhD - "How Hard Can It Be?'. 6. The Mindset of a New Design Academic. Section 3: Being an Effective Design Educator. 7. A Guide to Design Intensives. 8. Using Video and Blended Learning. 9. Reframing Learning via Technology: COVID-19 - Hacks and Reflections. Part 2: Becoming a Leader. Section 4: Leading Yourself. 10. How to "Dare Greatly" in Academia. 11. Running the Academic Marathon: Planning and Executing as Planned. Section 5: Leading Others. 12. Research Leadership. 13. Research Co-Design: Meaningful Collaboration in Research. 14. Design Curricula: Navigating Process and People. 15. Student Engagement through Mentoring. Section 6: Leading a Group or School. 16. Building a Research Group: Urban Informatics 2006 to Now. 17. Leading a Design School: Practices from Australia and the USA.
