Jeremy Myerson
Jeremy Myerson began his professional life as a journalist on The Stage newspaper before going on to edit a number of art and design titles including Design (published by the Design Council), Creative Review, V&A Magazine and World Architecture. From 1986-89, he was founding editor of Design Week, the world's first weekly news magazine for designers and their clients. He holds arts degrees from the University of Hull and the Royal College of Art.
For much of the 1990s, Jeremy worked as an independent writer, researcher and curator in design, often with the aim of linking design industry developments to those in higher education. From 1995-8 he was Professor of Contemporary Design at De Montfort University, a frequent contributor to national newspapers and BBC News 24, and director of his own company, Design Intermedia.
In 1999, he set up the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design with Roger Coleman and subsequently played a lead role at the RCA in establishing the InnovationRCA network for business and the Design London joint venture with Imperial College London. These entities work alongside the centre in commercialising graduate research and innovations.
Jeremy has curated many national exhibitions including Doing A Dyson at the Design Museum and Rewind: 40 years for design and advertising at the V&A. He is the author of 18 books, the latest of which is New Demographics New Workspace (Gower 2010), a publication based on a major research project funded by the EPSRC and AHRC.
Jeremy's research focus is on the study of professional design practice in relation to social, demographic and technological change. He is particularly interested in the junction point of inclusive design and innovation - in exploring how people-centred design methods can be a trigger for social enterprise and business productivity.
In recent years he has focused this interest on the design of the office environment, writing a trilogy of books on the subject with technologist Philip Ross, and contributing to national design guidance for UK offices. The centre's Work & City research lab is based on many of the key themes in his work.
However Jeremy is now researching in the areas of inclusive design, workplace design and healthcare design in an increasingly interdisciplinary way. He was Principal Investigator on the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) project in partnership with Imperial College London, and on the i~design3 study in partnership with the Engineering Design Centre at Cambridge University looking at ways to help designers work more closely with users. Both projects were funded by the EPSRC.
In January 2012 he joined the AHRC-funded knowledge exchange hub, The Creative Exchange, as Co-Investigator in partnership with Lancaster and Newcastle Universities.
