Alastair
Macdonald
Emeritus Professor
School of Design
biography
Designer by training, researcher by inclination.
Over 40 years' experience as a tutor and researcher embracing human factors, aesthetics, design for age, health and care. Research primarily conducted within inter- and trans-disciplinary teams, supported by competitive grants from UKRI, NIHR and charitable trusts.
Awarded a personal professorship in 2000 by the University of Glasgow for academic leadership and research at GSA.
Winner ‘Best Research’ category in the inaugural 2018 AHRC/Wellcome Health Humanities Awards.
Research interests
Design-led and trans-disciplinary, mixed methods approaches for ageing, health and care-related research.
PGR supervision interests
Integrating design-led methods into transdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches for ageing, health and care-related research for thesis-based PhDs.
Current PGR students
Jing Li: Exploring issues of loneliness in the elderly through participatory design methods: a comparative study of two elderly groups in Glasgow.
Shuzhong Wang: Exploring Narrative and Co-design Methods In the Social Care Decision-making Process for Older People.
