School of Design staff

	Name Sort descending	Positions
	Asquith, Lindsay Lindsay is a social and service designer and vernacular architect with an interest in using design to transform the life chances of marginalised people. Her current research is focused on designing…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Bahemia, Natalia	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Bongers, Bert Dr. Bert Bongers leads the Interactivation Studio in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building to support the design and research of interactivating objects and spaces. Bert has a mixed…	Associate Professor, School of Design Visiting Fellow, School of Design
	Brennan, Benjamin	Research Administrator, School of Design
	Brennan, Ella	Contractor, School of Design
	Brown, Isabella	Designer, School of Design
	Burrell, Andrew Dr Andrew Burrell is a practice-based researcher and educator exploring virtual and digitally mediated environments as a site for the construction, experience and exploration of memory as narrative.…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Cassar, Rachael Rachael Cassar is a designer, tutor and academic working at the intersection of fashion and sustainability, upcycling and slow practice, with 17 years professional experience in the international…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Chalmers Braithwaite, Ali	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Choat, Alyssa Alyssa’s draws on her practice-based research, professional experience and design expertise in her extensive teaching across many dimensions of the Fashion course. From theoretical to practical…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Clark, Gabriel Gabriel Clark is a visual communication design practitioner and academic whose expertise is in motion design, digital photo media, comics and multiplatform storytelling. His focus is on design and…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Clark, Treena Treena Clark is an Aboriginal Kokatha and Wirangu woman based in Adelaide/Kaurna Country. She is a current UTS 2022 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow and is undertaking a four…	Chancellor's Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow, School of Design
	Crosby, Alexandra Alexandra is an internationally recognised scholar and visual communicator with an interest in expanding design practice. Her current body of research is focused on more-than-human design and…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Drysdale, Sophie	Contractor, School of Design
	Fahd, Cherine Cherine Fahd is an academic and artist working across the fields of visual art and design. Her practice-based research employs photography, video, drawing and performance to examine the connection…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Foster, Steven	Contractor, School of Design
	Gaul, Chris	Curriculum Developer, School of Design
	Gothe, Jacqueline Jacqueline Gothe is a design researcher in visual communication design and the Director of Visual Communication Design in the School of Design at UTS. Her research approach emphasizes research…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Gyger, Helen Helen Gyger is the author of Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) and the co-editor of Latin American Modern Architectures:…	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Han, Amanda	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Hardcastle, Nicola Nicola Hardcastle is a visual communication designer and academic whose research focuses on professional practice and industry engagement. Her current research focusses on the role of mentorship in…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Heffer, Cecilia Cecilia Heffer is a practice-based researcher specialising in contemporary lace. Her practice explores ephemeral spatial qualities unique to lace as a form of contemporary (p)lace marking. Agency is…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Henningham, Nicola	Oral History Interviewer, School of Design
	Isaac, Geoff	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Ismail, Ilham	Contractor, School of Design
	Jackson, Sally	Print Production Officer, School of Design
	Jancic, Biljana	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Jansen van Nieuwenhuizen, Anneke	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Jones, Sarah Jane	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Kaplan, Jonathan	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	Lake, Lisa	Centre Development and Partnerships Manager, School of Design
	Lee, Thomas Thomas Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Design Studies in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. He is research is concerned with the way large-scale imaginative representations, or storyworlds…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Li, Doris Dr Nga Wun (Doris) Li is a fashion and textiles researcher and Seamless Knitting Research lead. She investigates the potential of knitted material, design, and advanced technology to enhance product…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Lie, Stefan Stefan Lie is a product designer and design academic working at the intersection of product interaction and sustainable design. His research emphasises the relationship between humans and materials…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Liu, Tingting	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	Lockhart, Cathy Cathy Lockhart’s research explores the implications of the shift in the gender mix of the student population in industrial design education where there has been a notable increase in the number of…	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	Lorber-Kasunic, Jacquie Jacqueline Lorber Kasunic is an Associate Professor in Design at UTS. Her expertise spans various domains, including visualisation, interaction, systems, service design, disability, ageing, and…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Malcolm, Bridget I am a strategic designer, facilitator, educator and researcher working to evolve creative practices to address increasingly complex problems. My work draws on leading design methodologies including…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Mazabow, Saul	Lecturer, School of Design
	McLaughlin, Sally Dr Sally McLaughlin is a visual communication academic with an interest in sense making processes. The aim of Sally’s research is to provide frameworks that allow visual communication design…	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	McLean, Nahum	Lecturer, School of Design
	McNeil, Peter Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA is an award-winning design historian internationally known for his work on the visual culture of fashion. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the…	Distinguished Professor in Design History, School of Design
	Mellick Lopes, Abby Associate Professor Abby Mellick Lopes is a design studies scholar engaged in interdisciplinary, design-led social research and the Director of Postgraduate Design Studies at UTS. An award-winning…	Professor, School of Design
	Michele, Chloe	Research Development Manager, School of Design
	Milojevic, Angelique	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Monden, Masafumi PhD MA (Communication, Media & Culture) with Distinction BA (Public Communication/History, Philosophy & Politics) Masafumi Monden is an emerging fashion and cultural studies scholar…	Research Fellow, School of Design
	Monin, Monica Monica Monin explores design and creative practice within an overabundant and heterogenous media ecology. Specifically her research addresses the effects, possibilities and role of computation, code…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Nemme, Anton Anton Nemme is an Industrial Designer and graduate of UTS. He began his carreer in the field of product visualisation producing 3D models and renderings for some of Sydney’s leading Product Design…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Novak, James	Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Design
	O'Shea, Meeghan	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Oscar, Sara Sara Oscar works with the medium of photography. Her work reflects the diverse nature of photography as a way of investigating the mediums complex relationship to the past and its narration. Oscar…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Pandolfo, Berto Berto Pandolfo is an industrial designer who trained and worked in Australia and Italy. His design research interests are influenced by non-traditional or practice-oriented investigations.…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Redding, Melissa	Contractor, School of Design
	Reid, Melinda	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Rissanen, Timo Associate Professor Timo Rissanen is a fashion and textiles researcher with an interest in the interconnection between sustainability and social justice as they relate to the contemporary fashion…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Robinson, Todd Todd Robinson is a practitioner and researcher with an internationally recognised practice traversing fashion and sculpture. His practice is located alongside practices and strategies that have…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Romero, Betty	School Manager, School of Design
	Sadokierski, Zoe Dr Zoë Sadokierski is a Senior Lecturer in visual communication design, with a background in commercial book design. Her research investigates: book culture and publishing in the digital age; visual…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Sawyer, Jack	Project Officer, School of Design
	Scardifield, Katherine Kate Scardifield is an artist and design researcher with an interest in public collections and civic archives. Her research sits at the intersection of museology, and studies in material culture,…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Schultz, Tristan Tristan’s Gamilaroi Aboriginal and European Australian heritage shapes and forms his extensive interdisciplinary design experience. Tristan is the founder and director of Relative Creative, one of…	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	Seymour, Aaron Aaron Seymour is a designer and academic with a particular interest in the affective capacities of design. He has designed numerous audience experiences for museums and cultural institutions,…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Sgro, Donna Dr Donna Sgro is a Lecturer in fashion and textiles design, with a background as an independent fashion designer. Her research investigates creative pattern cutting in fashion and textile design…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Slade, Toby Toby Slade is a fashion researcher in the UTS Imagining Fashion Futures Lab and an authority on Japanese fashion and popular culture. His current research focuses on the history, contemporary forms…	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Sobel, Leanne	Senior Strategic Designer, School of Design
	Stein, Jesse Adams Dr Jesse Adams Stein is an interdisciplinary design researcher specialising in the relationship between technology, work and material culture. Her research shifts between historical and contemporary…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Design
	Stewart, Susan Dr Susan Stewart is a specialist in practice theory, phenomenology, philosophies of technology, design history, sustainability and social innovation. As a senior lecturer, Susan teaches within both…	Adjunct Fellow, School of Design
	Styles, Ben	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Sunstrum, Frederique	Lecturer, School of Design
	Sutton, Paul Paul Sutton is a Sydney-based pedestrian who lectures in photography and design. Always searching for a transcendent moment, he has photographed the streets of Sydney since 1990. Paul’s work focuses…	Research Assistant, School of Design
	Sweetapple, Kate Kate Sweetapple is a visual communication design academic with special interest in data sense-making and information aesthetics. Her focus is on text visualisation, using practice-led research to…	Head of School, Design, School of Design
	Thamodarampillai, Mayu	Contractor, School of Design
	Titmarsh, Mark Mark Titmarsh is a visual artist working in painting, video and writing. He has an international reputation as an experimental and award-winning filmmaker in Europe and the Americas, while in…	Lecturer, School of Design
	Tomkin, Douglas	Associate Professor, School of Design
	Tonkinwise, Cameron Professor Cameron Tonkinwise is an international expert in Design Studies and Transition Design and the head of the Design Innovation Research Centre at UTS. He writes and speaks extensively on the…	Professor, School of Design
	Venkatesh, Sumathy	School Administrative Officer (Design), School of Design
	Walden, Roderick Roderick Walden undertakes research into the contemporary methods and practice of professional industrial design. His principal areas of research interest lie in professional practice, practice-based…	Senior Lecturer, School of Design
	Wei, Lin	Lecturer, School of Design
	Whiteford, Beverley	School Administrative Officer (Design), School of Design
	Zoltkowski, Ania	Research Assistant, School of Design