Kirsty Ross
Kirsty is a design academic within the Innovation School at the Glasgow School of Art, teaching across the Product Design undergraduate programme and responsible for the coordination of the final year curriculum for both the BDes and MEDes pathways. She teaches into the Design Innovation & Collaborative Creativity specialism course and contributes to the Design Innovation programmes as a supervisor. Kirsty also coordinates the Innovation School collaboration with Audencia Business School in France, and teaches within the GSA design courses which form part of the MSc in Management & Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy.
Graduating from the Royal College of Art, Kirsty worked as a design professional in Industry for ten years, gaining experience within the fields of product design, experience design, design research and strategic design. Prior to employment at the GSA Kirsty worked at Nokia, joining the Design organisation in 2007. Over the course of five years, Kirsty progressed to the role of design director, establishing and leading her own design research team within Nokia Design.
Kirsty’s current research interests focus on collaborative design practice; the development of innovative design pedagogical models, projects and approaches which explore collaborative learning in academic, industry and social contexts.
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