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Rebecca Gamble

School Standards and Quality Manager

Nottingham School of Art & Design

Staff Group(s)
Multimedia

Role

Dr Rebecca Gamble is a Senior Lecturer in Product Design and the Course Leader for MA Design: Products and Furniture and MSc Design: Products and Technology, in the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment. She is involved in course reviews, curriculum development and reaccreditations, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, module and course leadership, industry liaison, research, PhD supervision and manages the degree shows for the department.

Rebecca is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and gained the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2022. She is the School’s Athena Swan (gender equality) Champion, a member of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and mentors externally to support the development of women in leadership in the creative industries.

Career overview

Before joining the Product Design department in 2015, Rebecca studied her PhD in Nottingham School of Art & Design at NTU, and was a Lecturer and Module Leader in the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Worcester for 5 years.

Alongside her academic career she has an art studio practice and has been commissioned by Arts Council England, Game City, Hatch, WEYA and British Art Show 7's Sideshow in Nottingham. Her work has been exhibited at Array Studios in Belfast, Grand Union in Birmingham, Primary in Nottingham, Axis Arts Centre in Crewe, University of Worcester, University of Falmouth and International Project Space Birmingham.

Her curatorial and gallery roles have included curating Product Lifetimes And The Environment (PLATE) and Future Factory showcases, a Committee Member for Surface Gallery and Chair of the Board of Directors for Primary artist studios and gallery in Nottingham (2013-2016).

Research areas

Dr Rebecca Gamble's research interests stem from her PhD ‘The Practice of Everyday (Virtual) Life’ gained in 2016 from the Nottingham School of Art & Design at NTU, and current teaching and PhD supervision. This includes:

  • Curating physical and virtual spaces
  • Participation / Co-Design; actively engaging audiences/users/communities
  • Interactive art/design; interactivity and experience, between people, objects and spaces
  • Speculative / Critical Design; challenging expectations about the role objects play in everyday life
  • Emotionally Durable Design; building relationships between users and products to encourage durability and longevity
  • Politics; the power of art/design for positive social change, including activist strategies, gender, diversity, ethics and sustainability
  • Methodologies; practice-led research, qualitative research, ethnography, observation, semi-structured interviews, participatory action research
  • Pedagogy; active collaborative learning, co-creation with students, digital practice, reflective learning

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