Between 2009-2026 I held a permanent, part-time lecturing post in the department of Product Design at The Glasgow School of Art, where I taught across all years of the undergraduate programme and fed into PG programmes in the school of Innovation Design .
Internationally acknowledged innovators in the realm of design teaching, we have long held the view that in the post-industrial age product designers need to engage in the design of services and experiences - digital, intangible etc - as much as tangible artefacts.
Amongst my responsibilities I delivered projects around the themes of brand experience and responsive environments, running live projects with a broad range of clients from different sectors - including Hoover, Belvedere Vodka, Muirhead Leather and Bottle of Ginger to name but a few - in which we take a speculative look into the future to anticipate how the brands in question might respond to emerging trends and shifting markets.
In tandem with 'regular' teaching, I also led the GSA component of a year-long research project exploring potential applications for speckled computing with Edinburgh University's School of Informatics with students from each of the 4 scottish art schools, and helped to deliver a live project for Toshiba Electronics, Japan, which culminated in a presentation of student work in Tokyo.
For 2 years I was a visiting lecturer on the Product Design course at ECA (Edinburgh College of Art) where I was final year project supervisor for students on both UG and PG programmes, and was also a tutor on the Product Design Engineering course at Strathclyde University for one year, helping students to focus on understanding users and scenarios of use.
Having taught Product Design at GSA in various capacities since 2000, I finally left the department in 2026 to focus my energy more on Irregular Sleep Pattern, and the emerging Irregular Business School, where the intersection of my consultancy and teaching careers will continue to have value.