Dr Ross Brisco
Lecturer
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Personal statement
Ross is a Lecturer at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management. Ross's research interests include; Computer-Supported Collaborative Design, Design Engineering Education, Novel collaborative technologies including Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality to support design, Strategic Technology Selection, Product Design, Development and Realisation.
Ross is responsible for the Design 1, Design 2, Design methods and Management and the Postgraduate Individual Projects classes in the department.
Ross is the DMEM 1st-year advisor of studies and the Social Media champion and Student Industry Projects champion within the department.
Ross has been a member of the Design Society since 2015 and sits as chair of the Design Education Special Interest Group and Early Career Chair Collaborative Design Special Interest Group in workshop facilitation, strategic planning and conference organisation (E&PDE conference series). In 2023 Ross was elected by members of the Design Society to join the Advisory Board. In 2025 he was elected as deputy chair. He is one of 27 members who advises, guides and supports the Board of Management in developing and furthering the aim and objectives of the Society.
Ross is a member of the IED sitting on the Education and Training Committee, and has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy - Advance HE since 2021.
He has developed and conducted CPD courses on Strategic Technology Selection for the engineering sector in Scotland with NMIS.
Ross current work includes:
- Guest Editor for the Design Science Journal Thematic Collection on Design Education.
- E&PDE 2026 conference organiser, presenter, session chair & panel host.
- Scientific Advisory Board member (within past 2 years) for the ICED, DESIGN, ICoRD and E&PDE conferences.
- Peer Reviewer (within past 12 months) for the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, Bentham Science Publishers, Design Science Journal, Owl Press (borgerhoff-lamberigts), International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Design, Technology Education: An International Journal, Designing, AI EDAM, AI and Society, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Prize And Awards
- Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board
- Recipient
- 23/8/2025
- Shortlisted for the Strategic Themes R&KE Impact Awards 2025
- Recipient
- 24/7/2025
- Innovate UK Design Champion
- Recipient
- 15/10/2024
- EPSRC Peer Review College Member
- Recipient
- 29/4/2024
- Nomination for a Teaching Excellence Awards
- Recipient
- 25/4/2024
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Recipient
- 27/7/2023
Publications
- Specifying designers' empathy experiences in Virtual Reality : a literature review
- Grech Amy, Wodehouse Andrew, Brisco Ross, March Joshua, Hamilton David
- International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2025.2592710
- Emotion tracking : examining the emotional journeys of final-year design students
- Marji Hazar Taissier Eid, Rodgers Paul, Brisco Ross
- The Design Journal (2025)
- Assessing the understanding of intellectual property implications of AI use in product design undergraduates
- Holliman Alexander "Freddie", Brisco Ross, Gunn Kieran
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2025) 27th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE), pp. 421-426 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2025.71
- Vision Impairment in Virtual Reality Study : Participant View
- Grech Amy, Wodehouse Andrew, Brisco Ross
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00094058
- A comparative analysis of synchronous and asynchronous computer-supported collaborative design
- Maxwell Harris, Brisco Ross
- Proceedings of the Design Society Vol 5, pp. 11-20 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2025.10015
- Artificial Intelligence in engineering design : an industry perspective
- Edgecomb Ian, Brisco Ross, Gunn Kieran, Holliman Freddie
- Proceedings of the Design Society Vol 5, pp. 641-650 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2025.10078
Professional Activities
- Engineering Academics Network (EAN) Annual Congress
- Organiser
- 17/6/2026
- SCO Design Symposium: Cultural Production Based on Diversity
- Invited speaker
- 16/10/2025
- DLIN Symposium: Advancing Interdisciplinary Design Education in a Multicultural Context
- Invited speaker
- 14/10/2025
- Digital Dairy Chain: Engage with Strathclyde
- Speaker
- 8/10/2025
- NMIS SME Fair 2025
- Contributor
- 6/10/2025
- Scotland Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition
- Participant
- 1/10/2025
Projects
- Flourishing for the Future: Caring for People Living with Dementia
- Rodgers, Paul (Principal Investigator) Brisco, Ross (Co-investigator) Tepehan, Neslihan (Researcher) Robinson, Andrew (Researcher)
- The University of Strathclyde’s Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) has begun important new research aimed at transforming dementia diagnosis and care across the UK. The six-month project, titled 'Flourishing for the Future: Caring for People Living with Dementia', is part of the NHS Fit for the Future Mission and is funded by UKRI and AHRC.
The project led by Professor Paul Rodgers with Dr Ross Brisco, Dr Neslihan Tepehan and Andrew Robinson brings together a multidisciplinary team of design researchers.
This ambitious initiative seeks to examine how we can reduce the need for hospital-based care for people living with dementia (PLwD) by identifying innovative, design-led interventions that support early diagnosis, bespoke care pathways, and community-based support systems. The project will also explore how national training, policy development, and public awareness can be enhanced to better support PLwD and their carers. - 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Standard Innovation Student Voucher: Orchy MG Ltd
- Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator)
- 25-Jan-2025 - 24-Jan-2025
- Standard Innovation Voucher: The Invisible Brand
- Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator)
- 22-Jan-2025 - 18-Jan-2025
- NMIS Internship: The Human-Machine Partnership: AI for Sustainable Engineering Processes
- Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator) McLaughlin, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Johnson, Isaac (Researcher)
- An affordance is a design intention that guides user behaviour. It allows a designer to understand how to interact with an object or system. In the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and engineering design, AI affords a designer with greater data visualisations, design optimisations, predictive maintenance and smart products. Affordances bridge the gap between technical capabilities and practical user behaviour. By making AI technologies intuitive, transparent, and empowering, we can unlock their potential to drive a transition towards a circular economy, where resources are used efficiently, and waste is minimised.
As engineering designers begin to explore the potential of AI, they provide examples of appropriate and inappropriate use of AI throughout the design process. This project will work with established data sets, and company contacts in industry to build an understanding of the the state-of-the-art knowledge of engineering industry on the use of AI. Through the lens of sustainable engineering practices, which themselves have a vast dataset of standards and requirements, the Intern will be challenged with simplifying the design for sustainability process using AI. This may come in the form of guidance, or a prototype tool to demonstrate the possibilities. - 02-Jan-2025 - 22-Jan-2025
- Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Visualising Dairy Value Chains
- Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator) Holliman, Freddie (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Encouraging careers in dairy through digital STEM activities
- Brisco, Ross (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Ross
Brisco
Lecturer
Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management
Email: ross.brisco@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5294