Dr Simon Andrews

Course Leader, Sustainable Product Design

Simon Andrews is Course Leader on the Sustainable Product Design programme at Falmouth University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. His research practice focuses on the relationship between design and health and wellbeing, in particular the opportunities to empower people through inclusive design. His past research projects include a collaboration with local charity, Cornwall Mobility, to design a beach wheelchair to make access to the Cornish coast more inclusive. Through his PhD research project, he worked with people at risk of falls to design clothes that motivate active lifestyles and provide protection from hip fractures.

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Contact details

Telephone 01326370749
Email simon.andrews@falmouth.ac.uk

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2025 PhD Doctor of Philosophy, Innovation in hip protector design: Challenging function, meaning and context University of the Arts London (UAL) / Falmouth University
    2005 PGCert ED University of Central England
    2001 MA Product Design University of Central England
    1999 BA (Hons) Furniture & Product Design Kingston University

    Honors and awards

    Year Description
    2005 BDI Industry & Genius Awards - Winner of Interior Products category and overall Product winner, for 'Fetch'
    2002 West Midlands Design Awards - Commendation in Office Product Design for 'Flix'
    2000 15th International Design Yearbook - Concept mobile phone design selected for publication

    Research Interests

    Research interests and expertise

    Interests and expertise, in no particular order:

    Sustainable design strategies: design for disassembly, cradle-to-cradle, dematerialisation, service design, emotional design.
    Design process/design thinking/design theory.
    Design pedagogy.
    Integration of digital tools within design teaching.
    Life Cycle Assessment and application of LCA software.
    Low carbon lifestyles.
    Eco materials.
    Furniture design (contract/industrial production).
    Product design.
    Exhibition design.
    Manufacturing production detailing.
    AutoCAD.
    SolidWorks.
    Rapid prototyping.
    Sheet metal production.
    Plastic injection moulding.

    Research centre and group affiliations

    Sustainable Design

    Research Topics

    • Sustainable Design
    • Digital Design and Production
    • Pedagogy
    • manufacturing
    • Rapid Prototyping
    • 3d Cad

    Research Outputs

    Publications and research outputs

    • Andrews, Simon and Grace, Joanna

      (2019), Sensory Products for Sensory Beings, In: Design Research for Change Showcase Catalogue 2019, Lancaster University, Lancaster, pp. 100-101, ISBN: 978-1-86220-363-1

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2018), Sustainable product design: learning through live projects, In: Expanding communities of sustainable practive, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, pp. 14-19, ISBN: 978-0-9561970-7-8

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2023), Human-centred design research during the pandemic: Using an online survey to inform personas of women at risk of hip fracture, In: Design for Health, Taylor and Francis Group, Oxfordshire, UK, 7 (1), pp. 120-132, ISSN: 2473-5132, (Submitted)

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2019), Designing better hip protectors: a critical and contextual review examining their acceptance and adoption in older populations, In: The Design Journal, Informa UK Limited, London, 22 (sup1), pp. 331-345, ISSN: 1756-3062

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2024), Wearable Airbags: Investigating Attitudes Towards Inflatable Hip Protectors, In: Design 4 Health 2024 conference: Equilibrium in a time of permacrisis, 25 – 27 June 2024, Sheffield, (Submitted)

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2022), Human-centred design research during the pandemic: Using an online survey to inform personas of women at risk of hip fracture, In: [Design – Creative Practice – Research]3, 25th Nov 2022, Design Museum, London

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2018), Designing better hip protectors: a critical and contextual review examining their acceptance and adoption in older populations, In: The Design Journal, Informa UK Limited, London, 22 (sup1), pp. 331-345, ISSN: 1756-3062

    • Andrews, Simon, Cornwall Mobility, Professor Colin Roberts and Cornwall Mobility, Edward Trewhella

      (2016), Sand chair: Improving access to Cornish beaches through sustainable design, In: Sustainable Innovation 2016: ‘Circular Economy’ Sustainable Innovation & Design, 7th - 8th Nov 2016, University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, Surrey, (Unpublished)

    • Masterton, Drummond

      Andrews, Simon, (2015), Innovation across the design curriculum: Embedding sustainable design, In: Envisioning sustainable design and eco-design in Welsh universities, 17th April 2015, Pierhead, c/o The National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2014), Enhancing student experience through online collaboration, In: 7th International Materials Education Symposium, 9th - 10th April 2014, Cambridge University

    • Andrews, Simon and Cornwall Mobility

      (2017), Sand Chair: Access to Cornish beaches through inclusive design, Marazion Beach, Cornwall, Item availability may be restricted.

    • Andrews, Simon

      (2021), Perceptions of fall risk and attitudes towards hip protectors: Dataset of online survey results, (Unpublished)

    • Andrews, Simon

      Dutheil, Evy and Bang Creations, (2024), Care to Repair: Design for the Circular Economy, In: Care to Repair: Design for the Circular Economy, 8-12 May 2024, Grays Wharf Gallery, Commercial Road, Penryn TR10 8AE

    Events

    2013 Birmingham City University / Global Color Research collaboration. Designer and co-curator of 120m2 exhibition stand at the Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2013. Showcasing work of BIAD BA (Hons) Textile Design students in collaboration with national furniture, flooring and wall covering companies.

    Events

    2012 Birmingham Made Me Design Expo - Exhibition designer and project coordinator. I was tasked with the job of converting seven (out of nine) empty retail spaces into exhibition zones, for the inaugural show. I developed the designs liaising with the IDEA Birmingham team, zone curators and exhibition contractors. All the exhibitors were based in the Midlands and included JC Decaux, JCB, Dunlop, Jaguar, Triumph, Pashley Cycles, Brooks Sadles, Vax, AGA, and Emma Bridgewater. The Birmingham Made Me Design Expo was an initiative developed by thinktank, IDEA Birmingham whose founder chairman was Jaguar’s Design Director, Ian Callum.

    Events

    2012 Birmingham City University / Global Color Research collaboration. Designer and co-curator of 120m2 exhibition stand at the Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2012. Showcasing work of BIAD BA (Hons) Textile Design students in collaboration with national furniture, flooring and wall covering companies.

    Events

    2011 Birmingham City University / Global Color Research collaboration. Designer and co-curator of 120m2 exhibition stand at the Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2011. Showcasing work of BIAD BA (Hons) Textile Design students in collaboration with national furniture, flooring and wall covering companies.

    Events

    2009 Birmingham City University / Global Color Research collaboration. Designer and co-curator of exhibition stand at the Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2009. Showcasing work of BIAD BA (Hons) Textile Design students in collaboration with national furniture, flooring and wall covering companies.

    Events

    2008 Design City 2008. Exhibition designer and curator showcasing outputs of collaborative projects between Birmingham City University and local businesses. Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2008.

    Events

    2007 Design City 2008. Exhibition designer and curator showcasing outputs of collaborative projects between Birmingham City University and local businesses. Interiors Show, NEC, Birmingham, Jan 2008.

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Product Design
    • Furniture Design
    • Spatial Design

    Courses taught

    • BA(Hons) Sustainable Product Design