Mr Richard Adams

Senior Teaching Fellow

Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management

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Personal statement

After completing his MSc in Industrial Design, Richard has worked internationally and designed everything from transportation to high technological medical products for the National Health Service. His passion and focus is on human centred design approaches to help companies be more people facing.

 

He has previously set up and ran 2 successful companies, one which operated a design consultancy and the other was the development and manufacture of technology driven products. Among Richards, accolades he was one of a team of five who visited Cape Town as part of the internationally acclaimed “The International Entrepreneur” conference and the key note presentation at the Dalian Design Festival in China.

 

Richard’s research is around two key elements, user centred design and around the visual appearance of products and in particular the way products are distorted depending on where and how they are viewed.

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Publications

A 'snapshot' of engineering practitioners views of ChatGPT-informing pedagogy in higher education
Murray Mike, MacLachlan Ross, Flockhart Gordon M H, Adams Richard, Magueijo Vitor, Goodfellow Martin, Liaskos Konstantinos, Hasty William, Lauro Veeti
European Journal of Engineering Education Vol 51, pp. 104-129 (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2025.2492736
Chat-GPT : a clever search engine or a creative design assistant for students and industry?
Maclachlan Ross, Adams Richard, Lauro Veeti, Murray Michael, Magueijo Vitor, Flockhart Gordon, Hasty William
26th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (2024)
Collaboration and industrial involvement in design education
Adams Richard, Lindley Julian, Wyn Les
International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (2017)
Well being as a criteria for product design
Lindley Julian, Adams Richard
17th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, pp. 220-225 (2015)
The portal between the virtual and real in product design
Adams Richard, Lindley Julian, Beaufoy John, McGonigal Stephen
Betwixt and Between (2014)
A traditional approach to 3D printing
Lindley Julian, Adams Richard, Beaufoy John, McGonigal Stephen
16th International Conference on Engineering Design and Product Education, pp. 555-560 (2014)

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Professional Activities

Festival of Social Science: "Perspectives of Care" Co-Design Workshop
Participant
13/11/2023

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Projects

Exploring the use of Chat GPT by Engineering Employers: Informing Authentic Assessment in Higher Education Engineering
Murray, Michael (Principal Investigator) Flockhart, Gordon (Principal Investigator) MacLachlan, Ross (Principal Investigator) Adams, Richard (Principal Investigator) Magueijo, Vitor (Principal Investigator) Connolly, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Hasty, William (Principal Investigator)
Strathclyde Intern Funding:
01-Jan-2023 - 03-Jan-2023

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Mr Richard Adams
Senior Teaching Fellow
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management

Email: richard.adams@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4582