Dr Louise Mullagh
Senior Research Associate - Population and PolicyResearch Interests
My current research interests include design for policy (at global, national and regional scales), including the design methods and approaches used in this realm. I am also currently researching design for recovery and resilience as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular exploring how design interventions have matured throughout the pandemic and what designers and design researchers might learn for the future.
As a cross-discplinary researcher I also have interests in the impact of technologies, in particular those that are fuelled by big-data on our experiences of place. My PhD research, which was located in design and computing, explored how we might balance understandings of place that are based in big data and situated knowledges.
I am currently Chair (Research) of the PoGo (Policy and Governance) SIG for the Design Research Society.
My previous research on the AHRC funded Living Design and Located Making projects explored design for sustainability in small maker enterprises in the UK and China. This work sought to understand how traditional products represent principles of design for sustainability and how they can appeal to contemporary markets.
Career Details
Research associate, Living Design and Located Making - Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. December 2017 - Deceomber 2019
Thesis Title
PhD (Digital Innovation): Design Principles for More-than-Data Walks
Imagination Lancaster and School of Computing and Communications
PhD Supervision Interests
I am willing to take PhD students who are interested in research in the following areas: Design for policy: exploring how design is currently being used in policymaking at different scales; Data-driven design; Data-driven society and implications for design; Design for public innovation
Imagination Networks: Designing Place Based Policy
14/03/2022 → 31/05/2022
Research
Participatory Policies for IoT (at the Edge) Ethics
03/05/2021 → 29/10/2021
Research
Design Fusion Consultancy
01/03/2021 → 31/07/2021
Consultancy
Revealing the Mill Race: Exploring More-than-Data in the city
31/07/2018 → 31/08/2019
Research
DSI: Equity for the Older: Beyond Digital Access
01/01/1900 → …
Research
DRS 2022 Bilbao (Event)
Publication peer-review
DRS 2022 Bilbao
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Design in Place Based Policy Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
DRS Bilbao 2022 - Track Co-chair
Other
Policy Design and Practice Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Evidence and Policy : A Journal of Research Debate and Practice (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Editorial activity
PPITEE Policy prototyping workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
PPITEE Project poster presentation
Oral presentation
Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach
Invited talk
UHWB Conference 2021: Cities under COVID-19: a Systems Perspective
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
PPITEE Walking Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Design for Policy workshop series with UNU-IIGH
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
International Research Society for Public Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Research Society for Public Management
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Policy Design or Design for Policy or Something Else? Defining the Relationship Between Policy and Design
Oral presentation
Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Design Research Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Co-Design (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Policy and Governance Special Interest Group (Design Research Society) - Chair for Research
Other
Living Design: Design for Sustainability in Local Maker Enterprises
Invited talk
Sensing Place: Walking as an exploration of located knowledge
Invited talk
Revealing the Mill Race
Other
Living Design: Design for Sustainability in Local Maker Enterprises
Invited talk
Essence of Place - A Syros Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Walking and talking
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Walk and Talk: Sunderland Point
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Green Food Technology, Ubicomp 2013
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Social Design , Sustainability and Repair
Digital Good & Data Design , Policy and Governance , Social Design
- Imagination Lancaster
- Policy and Governance
- Space & Place
- Worldbuilding