Design and Screen Cultures (D&SC) Research Group

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The Design and Screen Cultures (D&SC) Research Group is a collective of anthropologists, designers, geographers, historians and sociologists, with interdisciplinary interests, methods and work. They research across, with and at the intersections of architecture, animation, crafts, design, film, media and public services. Their specialist research interests range across ageing, ecology, gender, making, narrative, perception and sexuality, across Scottish and international contexts. Their approach to work is critical, ethnographic and qualitative and they are informed by and contribute to a broader arena of contemporary social research.

A key part of the group’s research is its strong record of doctoral supervision. Collectively, members have supervised 22 doctoral students to completion and they currently have 30 doctoral students working with them, in both classical and practice-based modes. The Group delivers research-led teaching across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the School of Design, and many of the courses run as electives open to students across the wider College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Engaging with a diverse body of students, the Group stimulates a focus on the cultural, critical, philosophical, political and social dimensions of design, crafts and media.

Highlights of the Group’s leadership and involvement in recent and current grant-funded research projects include: Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) grant Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) joint grant Energy and Forced Displacement: A Qualitative Approach to Light, Heat and Power in Refugee Camps; European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for the Social Sciences and Humanities Knowing From the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design; AHRC Network, Creative Scotland and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada (SSHRC) grant for Naked Craft Network.

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL