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This body of work investigates how design research informed by feminist theory and philosophy can facilitate future design ontologies conceived beyond normative patriarchal and capitalist value constructs.

Virginia Heath's BAFTA-nominated documentary evokes the spirit of 20th century Scotland

This research investigates what factors are particular to research in the area of the design history of recent technologies, and asks how those factors might be mitigated.

‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ explores the relationship between staff, space, institution and the visibility of care work, in the disintegrating UK healthcare system.

Domesticated is an enquiry into the omnipresent social engagement in bodily practices of self-improvement, since training facilities for all ages have become familiar sites in peoples’ homes, as well as in contemporary urban public spaces.

ASUNDER tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left behind.

The work is an enquiry into whether two strangers suffering past family trauma – a Romanian woman in search of a child that was forcibly taken from her and a Scottish musician confronting the death of his abusive father – can discover a shared empathy to help heal their pain.

Weather Prediction by Numerical Process - a Forecast for Europe is a performance and exhibition where the weather is forecast through human labour, thus turning the act of computation into a social, performative and collaborative action.

Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld is an art installation, video documentary and evolving online archive which examines the divisive issue of uranium mining in Greenland.

This enquiry questions the cultural representation of post-industrial cities, whose ‘reason for being’, their industry, has transformed so significantly that the use of their nicknames e.g. ‘The Motor City’ (Detroit), becomes a melancholy gesture that talks only about the past