Academic Lead at Hyper Island, Rebecca co-leads Master’s Programs in Digital Experience Design and Digital Management with fellow life long learners to continually shape a Master’s level scholarship fit for managing the unknown.
A diverse portfolio career spanning 20yrs in art and creative direction for global experiential marketing campaigns and sponsorship strategies to teaching and leading undergraduate design education pathways in both the UK and USA to mentoring associates of The Curiosity Bureau and supervising postgraduate students to managing corporate and community partnerships with the likes of Design Museum, London and research projects with The University of Manchester and Manchester Museum.
Awarded her PhD in 2018 by Lancaster University in Design and Digital Innovation, Rebecca’s work celebrates practice-based research and continually challenges research through design methodology. Central to her research interests is how participation is experienced in the co-design and transformation of social space.