First exciting job in new role as DRS Chair. Calling for hosts for DRS2024. Fantastic opportunity for places, institutions and communities to create platforms for emerging design research. Deadline for proposals is November 7th

Coinciding with the new term, our Special Collections team curated this charming display of RCA student publications from the Archive. If you missed it, you've only yourself to blame... fortunately, these gems and countless other marvels can be viewed by appointment.

A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree. They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one” Amplify their voices.

Voters will be turned away from polling stations in May for not carrying the right sort of ID - make sure you aren't one of them. electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-that-…

Nice🧵 by LDOC grad Olivia Vane

Great to see LDoc grad Olivia Vane excelling in design, coding, and communication about her work.

The Executive Board of the DRS condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the recent treatment by Elsevier of the Editor-in-Chief and other Editors of Design Studies, the academic journal of the Design Research Society. Read more from the DRS here: designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-f…

Delighted to receive the new and updated second edition of the Routledge Books Companion to #Design Research. A must for all Design Researchers. 38 cracking contributions from authors based in over 20 countries DMEM Strathclyde University of Strathclyde Strathclyde Engineering Arts and Humanities Research Council Joyce Yee

Great to see LDOC grad Olivia Vane in the prize-winning team. Congratulations to all.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that the Guardian's 'deep dive' into university finances is riven with snobbery, class prejudice, and the claim that rather than more funding what universities really need is to be 'restructured' 🙄 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“What we’re seeing isn’t some slow, careful rebalancing of the system, done [in] teenagers’ best interests... Instead, it’s just another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power”

UK students going to lower and medium tariff universities will be getting meaningfully less funding per student (about 25%) than their peers – paying the same fee – going to selective universities. Essential analysis from Mark Corver 👇🏼 linkedin.com/posts/markcorv…

Phew!!! Rishi Sunak backs away from radical reform of graduate visas ft.com/content/a9f24f…

People need to stop hoping. It is way past time to act but act we must.

Wow. Nigel Farage's nephew caught upskirting..... Avoided jail. Is this two tier justice Nigel Farage MP Lee Anderson MP Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 ?

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

Leaving aside all the other criticisms, the proscription of Palestine Action is a monumentally stupid action from the perspective of the legitimacy of the state & the legal system. The draconian powers of the Terrorism Act 2000 worked when they were confined to organisations that

Extract from the prison diary of the remarkable Katie Gliddon, Croydon Suffragette & focus of my LDoc PhD research: YOU ARE NOT A COWARD #proud #100yearsofsuffrage #illustrationresearch Turf Projects Museum of Croydon