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Lisa is a Lecturer in Design and Director of Studies for Undergraduate Design. Her research explores the detrimental impacts of eco-modern values on designing for sustainability and wellbeing more generally. She is especially interested in discovering how technologies can mediate and negatively shape human behaviours, perceptions and values particularly as they relate to ethical and environmental concerns. Accordingly, Lisa’s research has explored ways of designing that prioritise technological mediation and the transformative impact this can have on design outputs.
Lisa has supervised numerous PhDs that relate to sustainability, health, and wellbeing. She is interested in PhD proposals that seek to investigate the relationship of design to sustainability, health, and wellbeing especially those with a focus on technological mediation, human values and moving beyond eco-modern approaches to design.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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Perceptions of Place: Creative Reflections on Value
Mullagh, L. (Principal Investigator), Thomas, L. (Principal Investigator) & Hesketh, A. (Co-Investigator)
2/06/25 → 19/12/25
Project: Other
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GROW Your Own Micro Internship
Boyko, C. (Principal Investigator), Thomas, L. (Co-Investigator) & Perez Ojeda, D. (Co-Investigator)
6/01/25 → 31/07/25
Project: Other
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Design Reactions: Exploring interventions during a pandemic and beyond
Mullagh, L., Cooper, R., Thomas, L. & Sacks, J., 8/02/2024, Design and Covid-19: From reaction to resilience. Mullagh, L. & Cooper, R. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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The Little Book of Design for Policy
Jacobs, N., Fonseca Braga, M., Calvo, M., Costa, A., Eseonu, T., Fagan, D., Kwon, N., Montalvan Lume, J., Mullagh, L., Thomas, L., Peevers, J., Perez Ojeda, D., Schmidt, S. & Chekansky, K., 1/05/2024, Lancaster: ImaginationLancaster. 40 p.Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
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Exploring the Nexus of Traditional Knowledge and Fan Studies
Changede, S., Jacobs, N., Mullagh, L. & Thomas, L., 14/10/2023.Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper
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Iteration, Iteration, Iteration: How Restructuring Data Can Reveal Complex Relationships Between Chronic Illnesses and the Apps Intended to Support Them
Field, H., Thomas, L. & Tsekleves, E., 9/07/2023, HCI International 2023 Posters - 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, Proceedings. Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. & Salvendy, G. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 68-75 8 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1834 CCIS).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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Out with the new, in with the old: Future directions for Design for Sustainability
Changede, S., Mullagh, L., Thomas, L. & Jacobs, N., 10/10/2023.Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Design in the Post-Pandemic World
Thomas, L. (Speaker)
18/05/2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Adapting Together: ECR Networking Workshop
Summers, S. (Organiser) & Thomas, L. (Organiser)
22/11/2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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World Humanitarian Forum
Thomas, L. (Speaker)
20/05/2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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The UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference
Thomas, L. (Speaker) & Blair, L. (Speaker)
6/09/2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference
Thomas, L. (Speaker)
14/06/2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience