Current projects
- Collaborative research for Future Island-Island, an AHRC Green Transition Ecosystems project
- Research for the UK Civil Service Public Evidence Design Review
- Doctoral training delivered as part of the Marie Curie-funded Sustainable Transitions through Democratic Design Doctoral Network.
Latest updates
Professor Lucy Kimbell was part of a panel at the International Service Design in Government (SDinGov) conference in Edinburgh, September 2025 sharing information about the UK’s Public Evidence Design Review for which she led the academic research and was launched at UAL in July. SDinGov brings together 400+ professionals working in central and local government and public services.
Lucy is the opening keynote in Barcelona at Beyond the Map/Service Design Days, October 2025. Attended by 300 service design professionals, Lucy is sharing perspectives from her forthcoming book on futures for professionalised design.
Lucy is one of 3 keynotes, along with Christian Bason and Marco Steinberg, speaking about design and policy at Dutch Design Week 2025 in Eindhoven in October organised by PONT, the national Dutch programme on design and government. Her contribution draws on recent research including a recent paper published in Politics and Policy, resulting from the UAL-led AHRC Design|Policy Research Network (2022-23).
Related and past projects
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Stencils of numbers graffiti by Divya Sharma, BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, Copyright: Alys Tomlinson.
Design and Policy Network
May 2022 - November 2023
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Sustainable Materials in the Library, 2019 by Alys Tomlinson
Social Design Institute
2019-2022
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Amber Nichol in the Studio © Alys Tomlinson
Practice research in social design
Design research published 2029-2022