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Dr Louise Valentine

Design Lecturer

 
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BIOGRAPHY

Dr Louise Valentine is a lecturer and AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, based in the School of Design, University of Dundee.

Louise, as part of her research remit within the multi-disciplinary team project investigating ‘Past, Present and Future Craft Practice’, collaborates with contemporary craft practitioners; manages a steering committee and economic network with representation from the major public and private bodies and, employs knowledge management strategies for developing teamwork.

Within this ambitious five-year long project, Louise is extending her own research developing articulation of printed textiles as a research method, intelligent questioning and, storytelling as a means of helping practitioners place their knowledge and experiences in the public domain. Thus helping the wider visual community and public agencies to gain an understanding of the nature and value of creativity.

She also has responsibility for the development of a new interdisciplinary / inter-university postgraduate programme entitled ‘Capitalising on Creativity’, which synthesises creative and management practice, and lectures on the theory and practice of design thinking, visualisation and teamwork.

Louise has a number of PhD students for whom she is acting as second supervisor and delivers elements within the graduate programme within Duncan of Jordanstone. She was Course Director for the multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural Master of Design programme at Duncan of Jordanstone. She has taught on Design Studies (for BSc Interactive Media and Innovative Product Design) and Design History, Theory and Practice programmes, as both module and programme leader.

Louise studied Industrial Design (Textiles) at Heriot-Watt University, Galashiels Campus and Printed Textile Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. She successfully gained her doctorate in 2003 entitled ‘The Activity of Rhetoric within the Process of a Designer’s Thinking’, and prior to returning to Higher Education Louise worked with the Scottish Qualifications Authority holding the remit to develop a knowledge management programme for a new advisory board.