Alastair
Macdonald
Senior Researcher School of Design
School of Design
biography
Designer by training, researcher by inclination.
Circa 40 years' experience as a tutor and researcher embracing human factors, aesthetics, design for age, health and care. Research primarily conducted within inter- and transdisciplinary 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
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches requires mutual respect for the different approaches, methods, forms of engagement and evidence within different epistemologies, all of which may be required when tackling complex challenges.
PGR supervision interests
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, 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.
