Developing a Situated Sense of Ethics in Design: An Empirical Investigation to Contextualize the Plurality of Ethics in Design

I am working toward a Ph.D. in Design at the University of Edinburgh. I am excited to do this work from a distance and to learn new ways of doing and thinking. The enactors of the design research process often work within collaborative and co-design environments. This approach moves the design discipline away from a single narrative of knowing toward a pluralistic way of knowing.

My work aims to 1) understand the interconnectedness and varied ways designers find and search for ethical meaning in the design discipline, 2) the plurality of ethical underpinnings that affect the efficacy of the design research process, and 3) identify and analyze case studies that explore ethical complexities in the design research process.