Professor Scott Thompson-Whiteside
Phd, University of Melbourne, Australia; Master in Design Leadership, Middlesex University, United Kingdom; BA Industrial Design, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Health, Arts & Design
- School of Design
- Centre for Design Innovation
- AMDC902a Hawthorn campus
Biography
Professor Scott Thompson-Whiteside is the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design. The faculty consists of the School of Health Sciences; the School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities; and the School of Design.
Since moving to Swinburne in 2005, Professor Thompson-Whiteside has had varied roles including the Dean of the School of Design, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean International. He has been responsible for a range of strategic international engagement activities and partnerships.
Professor Thompson-Whiteside has a background in Industrial Design and Design Management with extensive experience in teaching and educational management in the UK, Malaysia and Australia. In 2006 he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award for Higher Education.
Professor Thompson-Whiteside completed his PhD at The University of Melbourne at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. His research intersects design strategy, management and innovation along with higher education policy and management, internationalisation and design education more generally.
Research interests
Strategic Design; Education; Product Diversity, and Productivity Design: Product Innovation; Strategic & Transformative Design: Design Research Education; Strategic & Transformative Design: Design Thinking and Complexity; design; design management
PhD candidate and honours supervision
Higher degrees by research
Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.
PhD topics and outlines
Design education, design pedagogy, design management and strategy
Fields of Research
- Design Practice And Management - 120300
- Other Education - 139900
Teaching areas
Strategic & Transformative Design: Design Thinking and Complexity
Awards
- 2006, Swinburne, Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology
Publications
Also published as: Thompson-Whiteside, Scott; Thompson-Whiteside, S.
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Recent research grants awarded
- 2017: Melbourne Korean War Memorial *; Melbourne Korean War Memorial
- 2016: Research and development of kitchenware designed for younger generations *; King's Flair International
* Chief Investigator
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