The Team
Professor Richard Kimbell
Richard Kimbell was the first professor of Technology Education in
London University. He has taught technology in schools and been
course director for undergraduate and postgraduate courses of teacher
education. In 1990, he founded the Technology Education Research Unit
(TERU) at Goldsmiths, as the base from which to manage
his expanding research portfolio. In the subsequent period, research
sponsors include research councils (e.g. ESRC, NSF [USA]), industry
(e.g. LEGO, BP), government departments (e.g. DfES, DfID), as well as
professional and charitable organisations (e.g. Engineering Council,
Royal Society of Arts, Design Museum).
He has published widely in the field including three single-authored
books, several books in which he edited contributions, as well as reports
commissioned by UK Government Departments, the Congress of the United
States, UNESCO and NATO. He has written and presented television programmes
and regularly lectures internationally. He is a consultant to the National
Academy of Engineering and the National Science Foundation in the USA,
and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Stockholm.
Tony Wheeler
Independent designer, publisher, researcher, founder member of Creating
Spaces and co-founder of TAG Learning. Tony is currently working at Goldsmiths exploring innovative approaches to assessing
creativity.
He has planned and taught design related courses at most stages of
education, from primary through to post graduate level, and has lectured
internationally and examined at advanced and graduate level. While creative
director at TAG Learning Tony designed and published many software titles,
teacher guides and helped to established four national web communities.
Tony has produced teaching packs for the V&A, developed multimedia
materials for the BBC, published learning resources for English Heritage
and continues to work closely with the visual arts education team at
Arts Council England.
Professor Kay Stables
Kay started her career in London as a textiles teacher, moving to Goldsmiths
in 1986 as a researcher on a major government funded research project
on assessment of capability in design and technology (the APU project).
Since this first project she has directed and contributed to a broad
range of research projects in the area of design and technology education
including primary and secondary age learners, both in the UK and overseas.
With Professor Richard Kimbell, she has authored a retrospective analysis
of this 20 years of research in TERU.
She takes a keen interest in the development of technology education
across the globe and is an editorial board member of two key journals
in the field: the USA based Journal of Technology Education and UK based
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. She
has been a visiting scholar at a number of overseas institutions in
Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Kay was Acting Warden of Goldsmiths (2004 - 2005) and prior to this
she was Senior Pro-Warden and Pro-Warden Students (2000 - 2004) and is the current Head of the Department of Design.