Thank you, Joy and Mattias, for sharing your work with us.
With over 1,200 subscribers, PhD-Design is one of the largest
communities of doctoral students and doctoral supervisors working in
design research. My estimate is that some 20 to 25% of the list
members are graduate students.
I'd like to repeat Dick Buchanan's invitation to doctoral students to
share their current research with us.
I have two particular questions --
1) What research topics are you pursuing ?
2) What kinds of methods are you using ?
Research fellows on the list have interesting projects under way.
It's easy to name a dozen -- John Feland, Chris Heape, Michael Hohl,
Hans Samuelson, Noam Austerlitz, Bilge Mutlu, Jurie Groenewald,
Jesper Clement, Dagny Stuedahl, Amanda Bill, Bruce Tharp.
If we add recently completed doctors such as Kristina Niederrer,
Susan Hagan, Tiiu Poldma, Norm Sheehan, Fatina Saikaly, Kristina
Niedderer, or John Restrepo, I suspect that this would give us a rich
and reasonably robust survey of the field.
Dick's suggestion interested many of us. I gather the suggestion led
to many conversations over lunch and tea at our many schools. Given
the difficulty of tracking doctoral work in the many universities and
design schools we represent, I know that the responses have been very
welcome.
May I request that doctoral research fellows and recent doctors tell
us about their work?
It would be especially nice to have online access to completed
dissertations from those who have dissertations available online.
Ken Friedman
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