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Staff profile / Roger Griffiths

Senior Lecturer in Product Design
Industrial Liaison Coordinator
Email: rgriffiths@uwic.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 416661

After graduating from Teeside Polytechnic in 1985, Roger spent 14 years in manufacturing environments in consultancy and in-house design departments at major international companies such as ITT, Alcatel, Addis Housewares and Mitsubishi Plastics. Roger has led a many successful product launches and capital investment projects that have maintained these companies as leaders in household plastics, baby, dental and teletronic markets.

In September 1998, Roger joined The University of Wales as Senior Lecturer/Commercial Coordinator. This position has enabled him to deliver design, development, management and marketing techniques to graduates and mature students, as well as continuing his ‘hands-on’ design skills through consultancy projects with a number of local SME’s and blue chip manufacturing companies.

Roger’s research interests lie in sustainable product design and design education and he has presented papers in Europe and for the IDSA in Canada.

Roger Griffiths is member of Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/programme_for_advanced_interactive_prototype_research/), part of the Design Enhanced Human Futures theme within WIRAD.

Research:

Current: Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAPIR)

Conference Papers/Presentations:

2008 The 10th international Engineering and Product Design Education Conference4-5 (Lead Author)
2007 5th Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference Shaping the Future? Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Lead Author)
2006 Design Engineering Journal: in Joint submission with Nottingham Trent University Product Design Department. (Co-Author)
2006 9th International Design Conference - Design 2006, University Of ZagrebFaculty Of Mechanical Engineering And Naval Architecture. Zagreb, Croatia (Lead Author)
2006 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacture8th-10th, Harbin, China (Lead Author)
2006 Design Education: Ensuring course content and delivery is relevant to the needs of industry, engineering and product design education conference, , Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria (Presenter)
2006 'Rapid product design in the curriculum - from concept to interactive model in 24 hours', 9th international design conference - design 2006, The Design Society, Dubrovnik (Paper)
2005 The Changing Face of Education, 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference: Pare: Who’s Design is it Anyway? Napier University, Edinburgh Scotland. (Author)

Exhibitions/Events

2007 Art Design and Media Commentator for the HEA

Knowledge Transfer

Current: Development and piloting of HE sustainable design resource pack, Eco Design Centre Wales
2007 Preparation and delivery of SMART Materials pack for secondary school, Design and Technology Association and Technology Alliance Wales
2005 Bartondale Engineering - Networked with company, established opportunity, wrote the KTP programme, liaised with programme management and company, recruited temporary staff, KTP passed but company subsequently withdrew due to unforeseen financial constraints.
2005 PHP Limited - Networked with company, established opportunity co-wrote the KTP programme and remains a Supervisor for this scheme.

Other:

2007 Art Design and Media Commentator for the HEA

Membership of Professional Bodies

Higher Education Academy (Fellow)
Cardiff Innovation Network
Wales Innovators Network
IAgrE

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.