Associate Professor Selby Coxon

Associate Professor Selby Coxon

Associate Dean, Graduate Research
Co-Director, Mobility Design Lab
Associate Professor, Industrial Design

Department of Design

Selby Coxon is the Associate Dean, Graduate Research at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Co-Director of the Mobility Design Lab.

His research explores far-reaching, ambitious interventions in mobility design. In particular leveraging design to transition from carbon based energy systems and the private car to alternately powered multimodal platforms such as e-micro mobility, active mobility and shared public transport systems.

Selby has engaged with a diverse group of organisations, including Metro Trains Melbourne, Yarra Trams, Volgren, Transdev, General Motors, SNCF France and IITB India. Some projects have coalesced around Graduate Research Industry Partnerships (GRIP) such as the Sustainable Public Transport GRIP and later directorships in the Injury Prevention Grip working with Monash University Accident Research Centre and the Department of Transport and the newly formed safe sustainable and accessible Rail GRIP with the Institute of Rail Technology. Selby is the principal author of Urban Mobility Design (Elsevier 2019) and editor and contributor to the anthology; Advancing a Design Approach to Enriching Public Transport (Springer 2021).

Since 2022 Selby has been closely engaged in the Net Zero Precincts Australian Research Council ARC as a Chief Investigator working on how design might help contribute to a transition strategy from private car use to a multi modal net zero carbon emission lifestyle for the patrons of Monash University’s Clayton Campus.

Selby is also collaborating with IRT , Sustainability Victoria and Yarra Trams in the design of infrastructure using innovative processes with recycled materials.

Selby teaches Industrial Design. He is a recipient of an Educator’s Award from the Australian Design Awards and has supervised an exceptional number of national and international design competition winners. In 2017, he received the Dean's Award for Research Excellence (ECR).

For a complete overview of Selby's publications and contributions please refer to his Research Profile