Cardiff Group Founder Members

The members listed below, with their affiliations and roles at that time, participated in the first Cardiff Group seminar in July 2001:

Rob Aley
Senior Enterprise Development Specialist
The Schumacher Centre for Technology & Development
Rugby, UK
Industrial Designer

John Ballyn FCSD
Independent Consultant, UK
Industrial Designer

Prue Bramwell-Davis MSDC, FRCA, FRSA
Senior Tutor, Industrial Design Engineering, Royal College of Art, UK
Educational Designer

Tim Coward MDesRCA, FCSD, FRSA
Head of School, Cardiff School of Art & Design
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK
Industrial Designer

James Fathers BA (Hons)
Senior Lecturer, School of Product & Engineering Design
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK
Industrial Designer

Dr Luiz Guimarães
Coordinator, Industrial Design & Sustainable Development Group
Federal University of Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil
Industrial Designer

Ian Harris
Designer, 'Motivation', Bristol, UK
Industrial Designer

Chinandu Mwendapole
De Montfort University, UK
PhD Research Student

Professor Roger Newport Dip AD, MDesRCA, FCSD, FRSA
Birmingham Centre for Design Research,
University of Central England, UK
Industrial Designer

* Professor Colin Simmons
School of Accounting, Economics and Management Sciences
University of Salford, UK
Economist

Dr Mirjam Southwell BA (Hons), MDesRCA, MSc, PhD
Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Eco Designer

Angharad Thomas BSc(Hons), DipEd, MA
Senior Lecturer, School of Art & Design, University of Salford, UK
Geographer, Textile Designer

Professor David Wield BSc, PhD, CEng
Co-Director, ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics
Co-Director, International Development Centre, Open University, UK
Engineer

* We are very sad to report the untimely death of Professor Colin Simmons in May 2004. Colin was a most valuable and energetic member of the Cardiff Group.
To read an obituary, follow this link.

The edited transcripts of the presentations at this first seminar, together with a commentary, have been published (see Recent publications ).