Richard is a researcher, designer and educator. He teaches on the Product Design BA (Hons) programme. Richard’s work focuses on design as a means of creating dialogue around death, dying and bereavement.

Before joining ECA Richard held both academic and technical roles at Edinburgh Napier University. He has taught product design and design research methods at Undergraduate and Masters level. During this time, Richard also worked in the digital fabrication workshop. Previously, Richard worked with social enterprises in Glasgow to up-skill vulnerable and disenfranchised members of the local community through furniture making.

Richard’s PhD focused on the ways in which design can be used as a means of processing grief and starting conversations about death through the co- design of objects, spaces and experiences. As a member of multiple interdisciplinary research teams, Richard’s research has explored design as a means of facilitating new ways to acknowledge loss in the home and in public space.

Richard enjoys exploring these speculative and critical questions through product and interaction design, making things with his hands and talking to people from diverse backgrounds relating to death, dying and bereavement.

If you're also fascinated by death, grief and design, get in touch.