Current PhD students
Meet PhD students currently studying at the School of Design Innovation and read about their research.
Pip Bennett
You don't need breasts to care.
Jeremy Cameron
Emotional Affordances in Game Design: A Novel Approach to Design Methodology, Creating Moving, Emotively Engaging Player Experiences.
Dana Fridman
Socially Designed: A Prescription for Brain Health.
Lina Goldstein
A Medical Alert to Protect Veins for Dialysis Fistulae.
Aisha Iskanderani
Researching and investigating toy design and the play experience for children's development.
Madelena Manetto Quick
More-Than-Human Worlding: Analysis and Exploration of Farm Animal Sanctuaries, World-Building and Speculative Design.
Ola Sawaie
Māori-besque: a study in cross-cultural design and hyphenated identities in New Zealand.
Emma Tempest
Cultivating the spaces that hold us: postpartum health and design in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ariya Xuxu Amoozegar-Montero
Digitally manufactured bras for women who have undergone breast surgery: an investigation into fit, comfort, and individualised sizing.