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• Dr. Céline Mougenot

  

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  Dr. Céline Mougenot Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Collaborative Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering.

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  South Kensington Campus

  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Director of the Collective Innovation Lab

  • Developing tools and methods to support the collective production of human-centered solutions to complex challenges by diverse groups of stakeholders.
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  • The group's vision is to have collaborative ideation and design methods stand as cornerstones for building a future where innovation is accessible, fair, and truly beneficial to all.

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• Malak Sadek

  

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  Malak Sadek PhD Candidate at the Collective Innovation Lab. UX Researcher at Bold Insight.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Aligning Conversational AI and Human Values

  • Malak's PhD involved creating a framework and toolkit to improve alignment between conversational AI and human values through collaborative design practices.
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  • Malak is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge University, with a BSc in Computer Engineering and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction.

• Echo Wan

  

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  Echo Wan PhD Candidate at the Collective Innovation Lab.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Interdisciplinary Collaboration x Problem Framing

  • Echo's PhD involves conducting studies to understand challenges around team dynamics and design processes in interdisciplinary healthcare design teams.
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  • Echo's research addresses these challenges and aims to build a framework to create shared understandings and objectives for more effective collaboration, particularly in the problem framing phase of design process.

• Diana Canghizer

  

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  Diana Canghizer PhD Candidate at the Collection Innovation Lab. Visiting Lecturer for MSc Innovation Design Engineering programme at Imperial College London and RCA. Founder of vera AI.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Codesigning Gender-Inclusive AI Health Innovation

  • Diana's research involves developing an interdisciplinary codesign framework and patient-centred toolkit aimed to bridge the gender gap in AI healthcare innovation design, supported by EPSRC, UKRI. 
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  • Diana is an innovation designer & researcher. She has worked in healthcare design, AI innovation and inclusive design working with companies such as GSK, Jacobs, Microsoft and Holition. She received the Young Innovators Award from Innovate UK, the Commendation for Excellence in IoT Innovation from Microsoft UK, and has been a delegate at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

• Mabel Forward

  

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  Mabel Forward PhD Candidate at the Collective Innovation Lab.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Women’s Health Innovation

  • Mabel’s research investigates inequalities within women’s healthcare, with the aim to co-design innovative solutions and frameworks, through inclusive design principles.
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  • Mabel has a background in Anthropology, Innovation and Visual Communication. Her most recent work has involved creating a human-centred design toolkit for Misophonia research. She approaches complex problems as ecosystems that require interdisciplinary understanding, in order to create social impact.

Former Students

• Annika Gao

  

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  Annika Gao MEng Design Engineering

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

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• Serena Sebastian

  

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  Serena Sebastian MEng Design Engineering

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

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• Yasimn Zaraket

  

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  Yasimn Zaraket MEng Design Engineering

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  South Kensington Campus
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Former Students

• Sander Välk

  

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  Sander Välk Design and innovation specialist with background in leading interdisciplinary collaborative product development.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  Design x Science Toolkit

  Sander developed an innovative toolkit for Design x Science collaborations. The toolkit supports early stage idea generation at the fuzzy front end of product innovation processes in the bio-economy. 

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• Freya Smith

  

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  Freya Smith MEng Design Engineering - Human-centred Design of AI. Co-Founder at CLIP Energy.

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  South Kensington Campus
  London SW7 2AZ, UK

  AI Co-Design with Practitioners and End-Users

  Freya facilitated AI co-design between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences through a card-based toolkit. The card-based AI literacy toolkit to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences.