Lisa is a professor at Monash University.

Professor Lisa Grocott is a co-design researcher who thrives on collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on social transformation projects. She believes co-design brings an integrative, participatory and relational orientation to research collaborations that cannot be addressed by one discipline alone. She is the Director of WonderLab at Monash University, Australia and is an Honorary Professor at the Design for Play Lab, Design School Kolding, Denmark.  

Lisa’s relational approach to designing transformative learning has been forged by collaborating with psychology and education researchers, creative methodologists and ethnographers in Australia, United States, Denmark and Great Britain. Her recent book Design for Transformative Learning: a Practical Approach to Memory-making and Perspective-shifting draws on the Indigenous and interdisciplinary lessons of her education, decades of practice-based research and the science behind designing strong memory traces. She is committed to designing playful encounters that scaffold the challenging work of shifting mindsets, worldviews, and limiting beliefs. Her expertise in transformation is informed by decades of leadership roles, including Dean of Academic Initiatives at Parsons in New York and Head of Design at Monash. Lisa was raised in Aotearoa New Zealand with whakapapa from Ngāti Kahungunu on her mother’s side and settlers from the United Kingdom on her father’s.

More about Lisa:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-grocott-3ab6ba25/

https://www.designingtransformativelearning.com/