Dr Eve Stirling BA (hons), MA, PhD
Associate Head
Summary
I am an experienced design scholar and educator, working with issues around technology, decolonising and gender. My more recent work focuses on conceptions of net zero within design theory and practice, reusing data equitably with participants for a just transition.
About
She has 16 years of teaching design research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate design students. And a range of experience working and doing research with young people (18-24), including her ESRC funded PhD that explored the lives of undergraduate students through their first year at university through a year long ethnography. She completed a scholarship to develop practice-led methods which utilise existing secondary datasets and create design fiction prototypes to imagine alternative possibilities for homes and living, working with participants to co-design sustainable and inclusive pathways to Net zero and the 2030 NetZero pledge.
Along with a user-centred approach to understand young people who play video games based in historic settings. Recently she led on a Sheffield Hallam University Levelling Up Project grant based in Doncaster (Reimagining the Garden City- Pride in place through cultivating community climate action) that explored participatory arts based methods for community engagement with the aim to support neighbourhood planning with the local council. It embedded principles of co-production, intergenerational learning and knowledge exchange between local residents, local government and third sector organisation partners and citizens, bringing together arts, inclusion and social innovation research and practice.
Specialist areas of interest
Design Research, CoDesign, Participatory Methods, Speculative Design, Social Innovation
Teaching
Research
Reimagining the Garden City- Pride in place through cultivating community climate action (PI)
This project harnesses proven arts and events based methods of research to prototype an innovative, transferable methodology for inclusive place-based collective action for neighbourhood stewardship and climate adaptation. It will embed principles of co-production, intergenerational learning and knowledge exchange with local government and third sector organisation partners and citizens.
Home Stories tell (PI)
This ongoing project has two foci; first, methodologically it uses low carbon methods (QSA + speculative design) to explore what these methods can tell us about being a low carbon design researcher. Secondly, the project explores the experiences of people and how their homes are heated, experimenting with mapping affect within different interior design typologies.
Co-Designing a positive energy district with SADACCA (Co-I)
How can SADACCA build upon its current activities, networks and capacities in the transition to net zero to become a site of education and learning around climate crisis, energy crisis, etc for other VSOs and local communities?
Gender & Design (Co-I)
This ongoing line of enquiry that explores the role of Gender in Design from both a historical and archive perspective, as well as current and future facing aiming to provide new insights into gender-inclusive design history, theory and praxis.
Publications
Journal articles
Stirling, E., & Wood, J. (2021). Actual history doesn't take place: Digital Gaming, Accuracy and Authenticity. Games Studies, 21 (1). http://gamestudies.org/2101/articles/stirling_wood
Levick-Parkin, M., Stirling, E., Hanson, M., & Bateman, R. (2020). BEYOND SPECULATION – Using speculative methods to surface ethics and positionality in design practice and pedagogy. Global Discourse An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs. http://doi.org/10.1332/204378920X16055409420649
Baborska-Narozny, M., Stirling, E., & Stevenson, F. (2017). Exploring the efficacy of Facebook groups for collective occupant learning about using their homes. American Behavioral Scientist, 61 (7), 757-773. http://doi.org/10.1177/0002764217717566
Baker, S., & Stirling, E. (2016). Liminal spaces, resources and networks: Facebook as a shaping force for students’ transitions into higher education. Learning and Teaching, 9 (2), 42-65. http://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2016.090203
Baker, S., & Stirling, E. (2016). Facebook as a shaping force for students' experiences of transitions into higher education. Learning and Teaching.
Selwyn, N., & Stirling, E. (2016). Social media and education … now the dust has settled. Learning, Media and Technology, 41 (1), 1-5. http://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1115769
Stirling, E. (2015). Technology, time and transition in higher education : two different realities of everyday Facebook use in the first year of university in the UK. Learning, Media and Technology, 41 (1), 100-118. http://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1102744
Conference papers
Stirling, E., & Levick-Parkin, M. (2020). Agent Makers: The City as an Agentic Heritage Interface. In CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART, MEDIA. Conference, Canterbury, Virtual. Amps (Architecture, Media, Politics and Society)
Levick-Parkin, M., Stirling, E., Hanson, M., & Bateman, R. (2017). AGENT MAKERS - The un-masking of environmental agency through design for speculative social innovation. In Making and Unmaking the Environment : Design History Society Annual Conference, University of Oslo, 7 September 2017 - 9 September 2017. http://www.makingandunmaking.net/programme/
Stirling, E., Hanson, M., Bateman, R., & Levick-Parkin, M. (2017). AGENT MAKERS – Exploring speculative design concepts as the interface for change within the city. In International Visual Methods Conference, Singapore, 16 August 2017 - 18 August 2017. http://www.visualmethods.info/
Billau, S., & Stirling, E. (2017). CoLAB – Collaborative exhibition as a method to open interior design. In Kung, C., Lam, E., & Lee, Y. (Eds.) Open design for E-very thing, (pp. 56-60). Aalto, Finland: Hong Kong Design Institute and Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media: https://www.cumulusassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cumulus-Hong-Kong-Proceeding2016.pdf
Stirling, E. (2017). Crafting ethnographic experiences : ways of knowing Facebook influences of a practice-based approach on research on everyday digital life. In Kung, C., Lam, E., & Lee, Y. (Eds.) Open design for e-very-thing. Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 proceedings/working papers, (pp. 471-476). Aalto, Finland: HKDI Cumulus: https://www.cumulusassociation.org/cumulus-working-papers-3316-cumulus-hong-kong-2016-open-design-for-e-very-thing/
Stirling, E. (2016). Social intersections. Social media spaces as sites for creative pedagogies. In In this place : Cumulus Association Biannual International Conference, Conference proceedings, (pp. 230-239). Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University: http://www.cumulusnottingham2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OS919_Cumulus_In_this_Place_Publication_Final.pdf
Barborska-Narozny, M., Stirling, E., & Stevenson, F. (2016). Exploring the Relationship Between a ‘Facebook Group’ and Face-to-Face Interactions in ‘Weak-Tie’ Residential Communities. In Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., Ruppert, E., & Murthy, D. (Eds.) Social Media and Society, Goldsmiths University. ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930989
Bateman, R., Craig, C., Hawley, G., & Stirling, E. (2015). Learning beyond borders : pioneering interdisciplinary learning and teaching approaches to promote socially responsible design practices. In Learning and Teaching Conference 2015, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, 25 June 2015. https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/ltconference/learning-and-teaching-conference-2015-programme/
Baborska-Narozny, M., Stirling, E., & Stevenson, F. (2015). Digitally networked action : developing self-organisation in ‘weak-tie’ residential communities through a ‘Facebook Group’. In Devisch, O., Huybrechts, L., & de Ridder, R. (Eds.) Design, Social Media and Technology to Foster Civic Self-Organisation, Belgium, 21 May 2015 - 22 May 2015 (pp. 101-142). London: Routledge: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315110332
Stirling, E. (2016). Crafting ethnographic experiences: Ways of knowing Facebook - A practice based exploration of digital spaces - Digital spaces // design thinking // crafting // research methods // social life. In Open Design for E-very-thing, Hong Kong Design Institute, 21 November 2016 - 27 November 2016.
Stirling, E. (2016). Social intersections. Social media spaces as sites for creative pedagogies. In In this place. Cumulus 2016, Nottingham Trent University, 27 April 2016 - 1 May 2016.
Book chapters
Stirling, E., & Wood, J. (2022). 2 Learning About the Past Through Digital Play: History Students and Video Games. In Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games. (pp. 29-44). De Gruyter: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712032-002
Stirling, E. (2021). Doing social media research. In Research Methods and Methodologies in Education. (3rd). Sage
Stirling, E., Billau, S., Batty, S., & Vallance, R. (2019). Textural interface: A design fiction. In Brooker, G., Harriss, H., & Walker, K. (Eds.) Interior Futures. Napa Valley, California: Crucible Press: https://www.cruciblepress.com/interiorfutures
Baborska-Narozny, M., Stirling, E., & Stevenson, F. (2019). Digitally networked action: developing self-organisation in ‘weak-tie’ residential communities through a ‘Facebook group’. In Devisch, O., Huybrechts, L., & De Rodder, R. (Eds.) Participatory Design Theory. Using Technology and Social Media to Foster Civic Engagement. Routledge
Stirling, E. (2017). Doing social media research. In Arthur, J., Waring, M., Coe, R., & Hedges, L. (Eds.) Research methods and methodologies in education. 2nd ed. London: Sage: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/research-methods-and-methodologies-in-education/book244966#contents
Stirling, E. (2016). ‘I’m always on Facebook!’: exploring Facebook as a mainstream research tool and ethnographic site. In Snee, H., Hine, C., Morey, Y., Roberts, S., & Watson, H. (Eds.) Digital methods for social science. An interdisciplinary guide to research innovation. (pp. 51-66). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan: http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453662_4
Stirling, E., Yamada-Rice, D., & Walker, K. (2015). Introduction. In Visual Methods with Children and Young People. (pp. 1-13). Palgrave Macmillan UK: http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295_1
Stirling, E. (2015). Industry Perspectives on Remixing, Creativity and Mess. In Visual Methods with Children and Young People. (pp. 120-125). Palgrave Macmillan UK: http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295_8
Stirling, E. (2015). Visual Industry Perspectives on Ethics and the Visual. In Visual Methods with Children and Young People. (pp. 186-193). Palgrave Macmillan UK: http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295_12
Stirling, E. (2014). "We use Facebook chat in lectures of course!" : exploring the use of Facebook Group by first-year undergraduate students for social and academic support. In Kent, M., & Leaver, T. (Eds.) An education in Facebook? : higher education and the world's largest social network. (pp. 23-31). London: Routledge
Stirling, E. (2014). Using Facebook as a research site and research tool. In Sage research methods cases. Sage: http://doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013510242
Books
Stirling, E., & Yamada-Rice, D. (2015). Visual methods with children and young people :academics and visual industries in dialogue. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/visual-methods-with-children-and-young-people-eve-stirling/?isb=9781137402288
Theses / Dissertations
Taylor, D.R. (2023). The future needs the past: remaking William Morris through contemporary art practice. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Mccormack, C., Simmonds, G., & Stirling, E. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00544
Noon, E.J. (2021). Social Comparisons on Instagram and Adolescent Identity Development: A Mixed-Methods Study. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Merchant, G., Stirling, E., & Culliney, M. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00393
Presentations
Stirling, E., & Hackett, A. (2018). Thinking about the more than human in making and research process. Presented at: 2nd European Conference of Qualitative Inquiry, Leuven, Belgium, 2018
Billau, S., & Stirling, E. (2016). CoLAB : Collaborative exhibition as a method to open interior design. Presented at: Open Design for E-very-thing, Hong Kong Design Institute, 2016
Postgraduate supervision
Current
Layla Gharib - Decolonising the Design School: Assembling Caring Futures
Marika Grasso - Attentive matter: material explorative approaches to investigate tactile relationships with decaying touchscreens
Emma McGuin - Wandering threads: Exploring orientation through craft based textiles practice
Completed
Diana Taylor - The future needs the past: remaking William Morris through contemporary art practice
Edward Noon - Social Network Sites as a Space for Adolescent Identity Exploration
Alison Mayne - Exploring wellbeing in yarn-based amateur craftswomen who make alone and share online
Julie Walters - Personal storytelling for wellbeing: Form, Content and Process