Chris Rust Academic Pages

Professor Chris Rust's academic home page

last updated 26 Nov 2006

Since May 2004 I have been Head of the Art & Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, England. I've been at Sheffield since 1991.

Our subject area at Sheffield Hallam received 5 rating for its research in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, no institution in Art and Design received a higher rating than this so we feel that we must be doing something right, although research ratings in Art and Design are very volatile.

My own research is concerned with the role of tacit knowledge in design, arising from our experience of research projects in which designing plays an instrumental part in investigations into problems in other disciplines.

I am also Chair of the Council of the Design Research Society the only international society open to researchers in every area of designing and every country. At the moment we are growing very fast and looking for new ways to support research and scholarship in design so it's an exciting time.

My main teaching role is in the MA Design Programme for which I was programme leader since 2000 until the end of the 2003/4 session. This is a multi-disciplinary programme with a mixture of students from the UK, Europe and further afield. I am lucky to work with a very motivated and talented group of students who are also very enjoyable company.

c.rust@shu.ac.uk