Professor Jayne Wallace

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As Professor of Craft and Wellbeing in the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries my work is situated at the intersection of craft, HCI and care. My research investigates both how material artefacts such as digital jewellery or objects of ongoingness and creative practice such as pottery making have the potential to support personhood and sense of self across a range of complex human contexts including dementia, bereavement and mental health. My work seeks to support emotional continuity and relational connection between people without reproducing the past or treating remembrance literally. Instead, dialogical newness is used to create a grounded approach in designing intimate, meaningful interactions that preserve personal histories and support enduring connections.

I am a co-investigator on Northumbria University’s UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) where I deliver design research methods teaching to the PhD candidate cohorts, as part of the (incredible) Converge Northumbria project team I help deliver free educational campus-based courses and opportunities to those 18+ in the community who have or are experiencing challenges associated with mental health. I am editor for the Taylor and Francis journal Design for Health alongside Prof Claire Craig and Prof Paul Chamberlain, also co-founder of the Research Through Design conference series with Prof Joyce Yee and co-founder and co-editer of the Journal of Jewellery Research with Dr Roberta Bernabei 2017 - 2025.

You can find out more about my work from my personal website