Presented here is a small selection of our recent projects, primarily those in which funding has helped harness a wider body of work.
The Centre for Design History has members from all strata of academic professional, from its community of postgraduate researchers, to its early and middle career academics, to senior and professorial staff and its ongoing connections with the world-leading emeritus professoriate. Together they have made an enormous contribution both to design history as a discipline, to subjects that intersect with it including visual cultures, and to the professional and industrial world of design.
Our members' outputs can be explored on our . Those examples below will give a sense of how our academics have successfully developed some of their interests.
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