Professor Lisa Grocott

Professor Lisa Grocott

Professor Lisa Grocott Director of WonderLab, a design and learning research lab.

Before recently returning to Melbourne, Lisa spent the past 12 years at Parsons School of Design in New York. Half of that time she was the dean of academic initiatives and the past six years she was core faculty in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program. Lisa collaborates with learning scientists from psychology, neuroscience and education to design research experiments that have social impact in the classroom and partners with universities on speculative design projects that explore the future(s) of higher education. She regularly publishes on design research and is currently a chief investigator on a federally funded research grant into teacher change and innovative learning through the University of Melbourne.

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Best in Category wins for Monash Design at the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards and a new Chair appointment

Monash Design researchers have taken out two "Best in Category" wins and Associate Professor Leah Heiss has been announced as the incoming Chair of the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards.

Monash Design staff and students excel at the Good Design Awards

Monash University’s Department of Design has received a host of  awards and accolades at the prestigious 2022 Good Design Awards, announced on Friday, 16 September.

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