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Sarah Lewington

Sarah Lewington

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham School of Art & Design

Staff Group(s)
Fashion marketing, management and communication

Role

I have worked at NTU for over 16 years and was the level 6 level leader and also module leader for Professional Development and Professional Practice on FCP. I was the module leader for the final year Negotiated Projects module for 5 years and a level 5 module leader for 8 years. I have organised and run L6 live projects with the Future Laboratory, McCann Manchester, TCO Agency, Paul Smith, Unilever and Stack Magazines. I am the course Creative Agency ambassador and have developed relationships with Love Agency, McCann Manchester, Tangent Design Agency and the Future Laboratory.

Currently I work across the department; I currently work on L5 and L6 on FMB, I am the module leader for Brand Environments on FMB and am the Professional Development Tutor for FCP which involves overseeing the sandwich placement diplomas and certificates.

Career overview

  • Freelance Graphic Designer for 5 years
  • English teacher to International students for 5 years

Research areas

Sarah has spoken at conferences in the areas of empathy and empathic design, self-measurement and Big Data. She is also interested in the fields of Architecture's influence on behaviour, Trend Prediction, Sustainability and Ethical consumption and promotion.

Conferences

  • March 2013: International Trend Day 'Big Data-Deep Emotions', Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Zurich
    Collaborative talk with Michelle Hughes on the way in which self-tracking reveals the real consumer
  • November 2011: Quantified Self Conference, Amsterdam
    Collaborative Ignite talk with Michelle Hughes entitled 'The Impact of Self-Tracking on Empathic Design and Market Research'. Breakout session entitled 'Empathic Design and why it matters to the Quantified Self'
  • November 2011: LSN Global
    Video interview with LSN Global 'Inform' discussing empathic design in relation to the Quantified Self
  • April 2011: ALDinHE Conference: Queen's University Belfast
    Collaborative workshop with Yvonne Trew and Ruth Coward entitled 'The Empathy Paradox' encompassing the different ways in which empathetic learning and teaching strategies are integrated into undergraduate teaching, post-graduate teaching and internationalisation and learner development.

External activity

I am an External Examiner at Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design on their post-graduate courses and was previously a verifier for Pearl Academy of Fashion in India.

Press expertise

  • The historical context of art and design
  • User-centred design

Course(s) I teach on