Meet the Team

  • Associate Dean, Dr Liam Fennessy

    Liam’s research and teaching concerns design theory, health, and sustainability, with a particular focus on the social and environmental implications of new product development.

    liam.fennessy@rmit.edu.au

  • Program Manager, Dr Frank Feltham

    Frank Feltham is a design researcher and educator with an interest in the moving body expressing “interaction” with sound responsive and haptic digital technologies for creativity, self- awareness and care.

    frank.feltham@rmit.edu.au

  • Associate Professor Karli Verghese

    Karli’s research explores the role of packaging, packaging sustainability, food loss/waste and life cycle assessment. She is also the Reduce Program Leader in the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre.

    karli.verghese@rmit.edu.au

  • Associate Professor Simon Lockery

    Simon explores sustainability, strategy, tool development, and innovation for both government and industry through his design research and business ventures.

    simon.lockery@rmit.edu.au

  • Associate Professor Soumitri Varadarajan

    Soumitri works on projects in cancer, diabetes, MS and maternal health. His teaching is focussed upon alternative pedagogy. His writing is focussed upon sociology of objects and material culture.

    soumitri.varadarajan@rmit.edu.au

  • Senior Lecturer, Dr Caroline Francis

    Caroline's research focuses on design-led trust perceptions and social behavioural change. Her interests include social innovation, holistic care, cross-cultural research, HCI, and sustainability.

    caroline.francis@rmit.edu.au

  • Senior Lecturer, Dr Jordan Lacey

    Jordan is an Australian Research Council fellow and senior lecturer across RMIT University’s School of Design and School of Art. He specialises in artistic research and soundscape design.

    jordan.lacey@rmit.edu.au

  • Senior Lecturer, Dr Judith Glover

    Judith specialises in teaching and researching social and sustainable design with a particular expertise in gender and sexuality, the craft/ design nexus, and design for batch production.

    judith.glover@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Dr Emma Luke

    Emma’s research explores the of encoding of value through data, materiality, aesthetics, and personalisation to inform the development of holistic wearable technology and enduring post digital personal objects.

    emma.luke@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Dr Juan Sanin

    Juan’s teaching and research are focused on the use of collaborative design to learn how people do design in their own ways and co-create positive everyday experiences with them.

    juan.sanin@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Dr Michelle Woulahan

    Michelle’s teaching and research explore electronic media with a focus on ubiquitous computing and tangible technologies.

    michelle.woulahan@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Dr Scott Mitchell

    Scott’s teaching explores interaction design, networked objects and data rich environments, his research interests include installation, sculpture and spatial practice.

    scott.mitchell@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Mr Simon Curlis

    Simon’s research considers design innovations for mobility service provision, systematic re-visioning, addressing wicked problems and emerging technological scenarios.

    simon.curlis@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Dr Stuart McFarlane

    Stuart is a researcher of auditory perception and cognition with a focus on health and wellbeing. He is an award-winning designer, and an advocate of multidisciplinary research and collaboration.

    stuart.mcfarlane2@rmit.edu.au

  • Lecturer, Mr William Dim

    Wil’s research is deeply engaged with design education and reimagining learning for the contemporary period. In particular, activating learners through learner-centred strategies that emphasise collaborative problem solving, individual strengths development and self-efficacy.

    wil.dim@rmit.edu.au