Showcase 2026 Student Spotlight: Eloise Pegg
Student Spotlight featuring BSc (Hons) Product Design student Eloise Pegg and her project 'PeeBe'.
By Jon Duckworth | Published on 28 April 2026
Categories: Student Showcase; School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment;
The Project
Eloise Pegg's project, PeeBe, is a portable urination device designed to help female runners during running races to ensure that they remain dignified, empowered and confident whilst urinating. PeeBe is a foldable, portable, intuitive design that has unique selling points including:
- a 'push-to-the-side' feature so that the users do not need to remove their clothing
- ergonomic hand grips
- intuitive design features including arrows and grips integrated into the design
- flexible material
- triangular shaped for structure
- opening designed to stop overflows and leaks
- angled output at the base to direct urine away from the body.
Eloise explains: "These features ensure that the runners can push themselves to their potential, without feeling discouraged or put off from participating due to their urinary needs."
The project was inspired by the real-life experiences of female runners. Image by Eloise Pegg.
The inspiration behind the project
PeeBe was inspired by hearing anecdotes of female runners' experiences during races where they were discouraged from participation due to their anxiety and worry of needing to urinate during races with no facilities.
"One runner I spoke to described her road-side urination as 'traumatic' and that it 'ruined the memory' and experience of the race, in a way that she feels a male runner would not experience." Eloise continues: "This barrier and embarrassment, as well as health risks relating to dehydration (from not wanting to need the toilet) and bladder damage (from holding in urine for extended periods of time) highlighted a clear gap in the market."
The project experience
Eloise says her experience working on the project has been eye-opening.
"I have delved deeper into bathroom habits than I would have anticipated as a first year! It has been so challenging, yet so rewarding experimenting with different materials and forms, as well as engaging with user feedback and focusing on user centred design to solve a real problem for real people."
Eloise focused on user centred design to solve a real problem for real people. Image by Eloise Pegg.
Being part of NTU
"My time at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has been really challenging, but in a good way," says BSc (Hons) Product Design student Eloise. "I have come so far in all of the technical skills, but also in having belief in my ability to achieve things I never thought were possible. No two days have been the same, whether I have been sketching, or speaking to users, or developing my CAD skills, or doing iterative 3D printing prototyping."
Eloise says collaborating with industry professionals to help improve her design and benefit from their knowledge and experience has been highly motivational, as has the supportive studio culture at NTU. Outside of the studio, highlights of her NTU experience include playing lacross for the university and attending the boat ball.
Closing remarks
When it comes to offering words of advice for future product design students, Eloise simply says: "Do it! Be prepared to work hard and think outside the box but take on every opportunity and push yourself out of your comfort zone."
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