Staff

Roderick Chisholm DA PGDip(Edin)

Senior Lecturer & First Year Co-ordinator

Tel: 01382 388933
Email: r.g.chisholm@dundee.ac.uk
General Foundation Office, Level 1, Crawford Building,
DJCAD, 13 Perth Road DD1 4HT

Biography

Roderick has been Course Director of the General Foundation in Art and Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College since 1999.

He is a graduate of Napier University in Graphic Design and Publishing,  and Edinburgh College of Art,  in Furniture and Product Design. He spent several successful years working as a commercial Graphic Designer within the publishing industry before turning his attention to Product Design. His professional expertise grew to encompass a wide range of product developments and manufacturing processes, in Glass reinforced plastic, steel and wood.

His research and practice is driven by all factors relating to design and the contribution it makes to economic development, wellbeing and Social and cultural identity. As part of his ongoing commitment to forging links between Design education and industry, he maintains a constant engagement with both the commercial sector and local authorities with the aim of promoting the creative and design process in support of economic development and advancing their interests and initiatives.

Research Projects

2008-09 Technology Strategy Board Award (Feasibility Study)

Principal Investigator: Criminal Evidence Gathering Filters / feasibility report // Ref: AK241L

To devise a system for reviewing police cases that are current, but not moving, and historical cases that are being reviewed. The system developed would aim to achieve a greater clarity towards summarizing the known individual elements that relate to the understanding and make up of a case.

To effect a greater level of clarity , understanding and comprehension of the essential elements of a case for those assigned to manage that process and to evoke a greater level of connectivity with the public by both gaining their interest and focus as individuals or stimulating debate I have identified and formed the key relationships with the key relationships from the legal, police service, academic and private sectors who as usability practitioners, information architects, software developers and designers can deliver this product.

Collaborators: Avian Communications, Tayside Police, Lawson Coull & Duncan, School of Law at Dundee University

£20,000 Award, June 2008 - May 2009.

Research Proposal AHRC (in preparation) 2009
Scottish Boat Building and Marine Heritage and economic development.

"Boat manufacturing" in Scotland is estimated at £5 million compared to £939 million  in England. This is from the KPI of  2007/8 therefore includes leisure and small commercial marine."
( Karen Boss , Researcher , British Marine federation )

The UK's  coastline is long in comparison to the UK's area and to the coasts of some other, similar sized countries; - the length of the UK coastline is around 12,500kms or 7,760 miles*.  We estimate (piece of string!) that it is about 5000 miles around the coast of mainland Britain - excluding all islands. 
Around 60% of our coastline is located in Scotland and the  off-shore island.

Research question and enquiry.
To consider why Scotland's Boat building Heritage isn't better reflected in the present time , in the form of a sustainable production boat, produced and built in Scotland that reflects the image and characteristics  of  that heritage and  provenance.