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Martin Woolley
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Martin Woolley is Director of Research at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the College's research profile including funding, strategic planning, dissemination, research degrees, project work, collaboration, staff development and the maintenance of research records.
With an early background in three dimensional and industrial design, Martin's research interests have broadened to encompass design-related aspects of the innovation process i.e., how design concepts evolve and move into the public domain, either in a commercial or societal context.
More recently Martin has moved into a research project management role, initially as Director of the HEFCE/TLTP funded 'demi' Project which established web-based learning and teaching resources for UK design courses. He is currently principle investigator on the E.U. Framework 5
'AGORA Cities for People' project and on 'The Emotional Wardrobe' Designing for the 21st Century EPSRC/AHRC cluster project. Martin has continuing international research collaborations with universities in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and Finland.
Martin has been active on many national and international research bodies including the AHRC Research panel 2, was an RAE panel member in art and design in 1992 and 1996 and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, writing the 'Design Directions' sustainable design brief and chairing the judging panel for the past two years. He is currently on the Design Research Society Council and the Design Education Association (DEED) executive.
From 2003 to 2005 Martin was the academic consultant to the Design Council's web-based, 'Knowledge Cell' project, supporting the editing and authoring process across an extensive range of web-based design information resources, intended for business, practice and education. www.design-council.org.uk/
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