Summary
Having trained as a product designer (Northumbria University), I worked in the design industry in interiors and games design before entering academia.
I am interested in the proliferation of digital spaces within our everyday lives and the relationship between time and space within these. My current work takes a speculative Design Fiction approach to explore agency and making.
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About
My research interests include the use of social media within society and I use practice based and visual research methods to explore the everyday lives of my participants. I am interested in design thinking and its influence on the research process, ethnographic research methods and social media as a research tool and research site.
My teaching reflects my research interests and I teach on a range of modules and supervise postgraduate students across the Post-graduate Design programme.
Specialist areas of interest
Practice based methods, Social Media, Space and Time, Digital EthnographySpecialist areas of interest
Social Media, Space and Time, Digital Ethnography
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Teaching
Business, Technology and Enterprise
Department of Art & Design, Post Graduate Design, Research Methods, Interior Design.
Interior Design
Post Graduate Design, Design Research Methods, Interior Design
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Research
- Art and Design Research Centre
- Culture and Creativity Research Institute
‘Gaming Past & Place’ which explores how playing video games affect gamers’ experience’s and perception’s of historical time periods and geographical places.
'ProcessMade' An exploration of Research and Making.
‘Digital residence’ – exploring digitally networked action in new build residential developments. -
Publications
Journal articles
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-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, 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
Levick-Parkin, M., Stirling, E., Hanson, M., & Bateman, R. (n.d.). BEYOND SPECULATION – Using speculative methods to surface ethics and positionality in design practice and pedagogy. Global Discourse An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs.
Conference papers
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., 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. (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
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
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Postgraduate supervision
Completed 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
Current
Edward Noon - Social Network Sites as a Space for Adolescent Identity Exploration
Diana Taylor - Returning, Reproducing, Repeating: Time and the hand in a post digital age
Marika Grasso - Investigation on the relationship between touch and conductive materiality for wellbeing
Emma McGuin - Wandering threads: Exploring orientation through craft based textiles practice