Seven-hour Staff Design Challenge
Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:40:00 BST
On Tuesday 7 July teams of staff from across the University were tasked with a seven-hour design challenge as part of the Honeypot project.
Honeypot enables hundreds of students at the University to assemble teams and to pitch their unique ideas and it was decided to extend the idea to staff. With backing from the President of New Ventures Stefan Gabriel, a Visiting Professor of Innovation at the University, Honeypot aims to discover the very best in innovation.
Project lead, and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Dr Jess Power commented: “The Honeypot project is designed to promote interdisciplinary working across the University. For a number of years we have brought together students to showcase the very best of innovative design and industry thinking through 24-hour challenges. However, recently staff wanted a slice of the action, so we devised a staff seven-hour challenge involving five different schools. It has been a tremendous success and will lead to other innovative research opportunities”.
The staff design challenge focused on ways to improve mortality of childbirth through exploring mechanisms to detect Perinatal Asphyxia. The winning idea will be supported by the University’s Research and Enterprise department with £10,000 backing for further development.
Pictured above are the winning team and the judges, from left to right: Dr David Swann, Reader in Design in the School of Art, Design and Architecture (member of winning team); David Bailey, Creative Director of UX&D (GEL), BBC (Judge); Dr Karen-Leigh Edwards, Reader Advancing Clinical Practice, Australian Catholic University (Judge); Dr Serena McCluskey, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human and Health Sciences (member of winning team); Professor Bob Cryan, Vice–Chancellor; Professor Liz Towns-Andrews, Director of Research and Enterprise and Chief Executive of 3M Buckley Innovation Centre (Judge); Dr Julia Meaton, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Strategy, Marketing and Economics and Course Leader in the Business School (member of winning team); Professor Eunice Ma, Director of Internationalisation in the School of Art, Design and Architecture (member of winning team) and Stefan Gabriel, Visiting Professor of Innovation (Judge).
For further information contact Dr Jess Power: e.power@hud.ac.uk
