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Dr Rod Adams

  • Committee position
    Treasurer
  • Committee role
    Treasurer
  • Job title
    Associate Professor - Deputy Head of Design
  • Institution name
    University of Northumbria
Rod is Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Design and senior academic at the School of Design, University of Northumbria, UK. His work develops new interdisciplinary research that connects education and the professional practices of design. Central to his academic practice is a continual enrichment of a designed society powered by original creative knowledge. His work focuses on the places of work through an examination of design anthropology and the social sciences. Publications include The Spatial Diorama: The act of the interior (A five-act play) in Interior Futures by Curzon Publishing (2018) and a new monograph: Interior Design: A Global Profession (2020) by Routledge.

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Professor David McGravie

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Dr Jacqueline Butler

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Dr Rod Adams

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Roger Bateman

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Shelley McNulty

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Rebecca Cain

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Professor Catherine Dormor

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Professor Paul Springer

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Dr Sian Vaughan

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Abid Qayum

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Dr. Jenny Holt

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