Please see this link for my up to date research profile https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/sally-sutherland

My practice based Design Star funded PhD has a supervision team that spans the School of Architecture and Design, the School of Health Sciences and Goldsmiths University, London. I am currently both a Doctoral Researcher and a Design Lecturer at the University of Brighton.

I have an MA in Sustainable Design, a BA in Three Dimensional Design and 15 years experience working in Lighting Design and Product development in the UK and Australia. As a socially active designer and design researcher, I am interested in how knowledge and experience that comes with design practice can be brought into design and health research. 

Before joining the University of Brighton, my work included roles at Pinniger and Partners, Studio Fractal, The National Gallery Company,  KRD - Kitchen Rogers Design, and iLAB Sydney.

My approach to teaching comes from my understanding that learning is an active and social activity. I prefer to use workshops and experiments as sites for the negotiation of ideas, theory and the designed world. This is informed by my practice-based design research that takes bodies, play, making and 'thinking with' seriously.