Jackie Leaver MA, FHEA
Senior Lecturer
- Department of Art and Design
- Art Design and Media Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre
- Culture and Creativity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Summary
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art & Design where I teach on the MA Design programme. I have 15 years industry experience working in fashion and the creative industries in London and completed an AHRC funded MA (Distinction) in Industrial Design in 2008.
I am part of the Art, Design and Media Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre (ADMRC) and have worked on a wide range of funded projects. I am currently undertaking a practice-based PhD 'From the inside out: Considering the future home through feminist spatial practice' which is supported by Lab4Living’s ‘100 Year Life’ Ï㽶ÊÓƵ England E3 funding.
About
I teach across the MA Design programme and specifically supervise the Fashion and Interior Design routes which align directly with my industry experience and research interests.
My creative practice, which includes drawing, photography and 3D (furniture) design, supports my practice-based doctorate as a key aspect of the enquiry. My research builds on the concepts of feminist spatial practice and care ethics to consider the complex issues and possibilities of the future home through an exploration of overlooked, mundane everyday domestic practices and materiality. The work challenges the dominant idea of innovation and the perpetual ‘new’ and foregrounds the potential of the small, intimate and domestic to individually and collectively re-imagine the spaces we already occupy. Instead of a distant, speculative future that may never arrive, it proposes a more open mode of inquiry to consider a future closer to now. An ongoing discourse rather than a fixed end or outcome. This work has been exhibited in the UK and Europe.
I have worked extensively with SHU's design-led interdisciplinary research group Lab4Living on a wide range of funded research which has involved working with older people, people with dementia, non-professional carers, looked-after children and people with spinal cord injury. A common thread throughout these projects is narrative, enabling people, places and things to tell their own story in their own way. This work has used a variety of creative methods including stop-frame animation, video, visual metaphor and design thinking. I have also been actively involved in the design and implementation of several research-related exhibitions, both in the UK and internationally.
Teaching
College of Social Sciences and Arts
Post Graduate & Fine Art
MA Design (Interior), MA Design (Fashion), MA Design (Graphics), MA Design (Illustration), MA Design (Product), MA Design (Interaction), MA Design (Packaging)
Methods for Ï㽶ÊÓƵ & Practice, Creative Design & Positionality, MA Project
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
- Art and Design Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Centre
- Culture and Creativity Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Doing it for Ourselves
Caring for Places a Things
ADRC, Health Foundation, The ZHAW, Switzerland, Chang Gung University, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, British Council PMI CONNECT
Publications
Journal articles
Wolstenholme, D., Downes, T., Leaver, J., Partridge, R., & Langley, J. (2014). . BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, 3 (1).
Conference papers
Gwilt, A., Leaver, J., Fisher, M., & Young, G. (2017). . In Cooper, T., Braithwaite, N., Moreno, M., & Salvia, G. (Eds.) Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE), Nottingham Trent University, 17 June 2015 - 19 June 2015. Nottingham Trent University:
Exhibitions
Spall, A. (2022). When The Space Becomes the Screen: Projection as Material. [Photographic and Augmented Reality Projection]. S1 Artspace, Fine Art Project Space.