Sharon Baurley

Research Steering Group

Sharon Baurley is Professor of Design & Materials, and Director of the Materials Science Research Centre at the Royal College of Art in London.

She has a track record of conceptualising and directing inter-disciplinary R&D projects involving academic-industry partnerships funded by UK research councils. Her current research is focused on advanced inter-disciplinary human-centred design methods to explore new ‘Product Cultures’, as a strategy for post-Industrial Design in the age of the Anthropocene, that de-couple the use of materials resources from human wellbeing and economic development. 

She is currently one of the centre directors in the National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research (NICER) Programme - a four-year £30 million investment from UKRI to move the UK towards a circular economy.

Learn more about the Materials Science Research Centre at the Royal College of Art.  

UKRI Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre.

 

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