Mr Richard Adams

Senior Teaching Fellow

Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management

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.

Expertise

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Prize And Awards

National Enterprise Educator Award: Recipient; 2/9/2010

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Publications

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Publications

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)
Understanding through making: Lindley Julian, Adams Richard, Beaufoy John, McGonigal Stephen; 16th International Conference on Engineering Design and Product Education, pp. 172-177 (2014)
Broadening assessment criteria and student awareness: Lindley Julian, Adams Richard; 14th International Engineering and Product Design Education Conference 2013 (2013)