Robert Phillips

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About Robert Phillips

Product Designer, with a wide range of projects from materials development, mass manufactured products to socially considered outputs. Experienced in initiating, creating, facilitating and growing collaborations with partners and institutions, in order to underpin industry led research and innovation opportunities. Rob has created and managed external collaborations in a national and international context. These relationships also help to create realistic needs for academic research and design briefs for student projects, as well as student employment opportunities. The span of collaborations Rob has developed spreads across a multi-faceted client base,examples of which are: Government (MOD, NASA, British Standards Institutions, BBC) Charities (RNIB, BBKA, V&A) Global Brands (Barclays, Arup, Samsung, M&S, Nokia, Procter and Gamble, Team GB, Google, Puma, Wolff Olins) Professional Organisations (The Design Council). PhD in the relationship of open design and citizen science, interested in: Open Design, Participatory Design, Citizen Science, Research in-the-wild, State of Nature, User Centred Design, Manufacturing