Dr Alison Prendiville

Biography

Dr Alison Prendiville is a Reader in Designing for Service, at LCC University of the Arts London. She actively collaborates with designers, healthcare professionals, scientists, engineers and anthropologists to facilitate and converge design with science and technology for the development of new products, services and processes. Funded by Thorn Transit Systems International (now part of Cubic), her doctoral research, was interdisciplinary, linking engineering specification to design and service management theory and practice. In parallel with this work she was also a researcher on the EU Framework IV Programme MIMIC (Modality, Inter-modality and Interchange) investigating barriers to the seamless journey across seven EU transport interchanges.

At present she is working as a Co-Investigator (Co-I) for the EU Horizon 2020 Pharma Factory project, a collaboration involving five biotech SMEs and four academic institutions (2017-21). Applying a user-centred approach to engage stakeholders (industry, government, regulators, patient groups, clinicians and the public at large) the research aims to better understand the opportunities for plant molecular pharmaceuticals, particularly high value products such as enzyme replacement therapies and diagnostics. Concurrently she is Co-I for two Bhabha Newton funded research projects exploring Antimicrobial Resistance in India; DOSA (Diagnostics for a One Health User Driven Solution in AMR) and DARPI (Drivers of AMR in Poultry in India). In addition, she is the Co-I for the AHRC funded project Re-envisioning infection practice ecologies in nursing (RIPEN) (2017-2019).

Dr Prendiville has extensive teaching experience at postgraduate level, encompassing service design, service innovation and social design. She supervises and examines PhDs in public sector innovation, designing for healthcare, service and social Design.

She is on the Advisory Board for Design for Social Innovation in Asia Pacific (DeSIAP) and on the AHRC Design Theme Advisory Group. Her work has been published in books and journals including 'Designing for Health', Gower publishing (2017), 'Service Design and Service Thinking in Healthcare and Hospital Management', Springer (2018) and Design Issues. She has recently edited with Daniela Sangiorgi ‘Designing for Service: Key Issues and New Directions', published by Bloomsbury (2017).