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Dear Ken, Thanks for your reply. By the first question, I wanted more of a general feel of what is required for a design PhD. The points that you listed were helpful but sometime I feel quite at sea given the enormity of the design research community. I, with a background in human factors engineering, constantly find the different design disciplines invigorating but need to understand the different aspects of design knowledge. Specifically what would constitute as an original contribution and how could one recognize it? Do designers recognize a contribution that is more broad than the "conventional" view of knowledge due to its "recent" growth. For the second question, my particular dept doesn't limit footnotes. So I believe that the particular member (an engineer) may have found it different as compared to the other two committee members (a sociologist and a historian). These members did not complain about the footnotes. So thanks for pointing the different disciplinary conventions. Thanks, VK On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Dear Vivek, > > Thanks for your reply. We both owe a tip of the hat to Keith Russell – he > found the Brabazon article. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------