Mapping and Developing Service Design Research in the UK

This report is the outcome of the Service Design Research UK (SDR UK) Network with Lancaster University as primary investigator and London College of Communication, UAL as co-investigator. This project was funded as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Network grant.

Service Design Research UK (SDR UK), funded by an AHRC Network Grant, aims to create a UK research network in an emerging field in Design that is Service Design. This field has a recent history and a growing, but still small and dispersed, research community that strongly needs support and visibility to consolidate its knowledge base and enhance its potential impact. Services represent a significant part of the UK economy and can have a transformational role in our society as they affect the way we organize, move, work, study or take care of our health and family. Design introduces a more human centred and creative approach to service innovation; this is critical to delivering more effective and novel solutions that have the potential to tackle contemporary challenges.

Service Design Research UK reviewed and consolidated the emergence of Service Design within the established field of Design.

Edited by Daniela Sangiorgi, Alison Prendiville and Amy Ricketts

With contributions from Stuart Bailey, Tracy Bhamra, Jeanette Blomberg, Camilla Buchanan, Katie Collins, Chris Downs, Ian Gwilt, Sabine Junginger, Lucy Kimbell, Eva-Maria Kirchberger, Alastair Macdonald, Val Mitchell, James Moultrie, Lia Patricio, Alison Prendiville, Glenn Robert, Mary Rose Cook, Daniela Sangiorgi, Bruce Tether, Paul Thurston, Hazel White and Bob Young

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