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Personal profile
Biography
Professor Lisa Grocott is a design researcher who thrives on collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on individual and cultural transformation projects. After a decade at Parsons in New York, she currently leads the Future of Work and Learning research program in the Emerging Technologies Lab at Monash University. In the US she worked with Grit, Belonging and Mindset researchers, in Australia she has collaborated with academic and industry partners in the learning sciences, education, organizational change and other creative methodologists. Lisa’s translational research is regularly published and has been awarded more than $2.5 million in funding. She was recently a CI on the ARC-funded Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change linkage grant with collaborators at the University of Melbourne and recently published a book on Design for Transformative Learning for Routledge’s Design for Social Responsibility series.
The Future of Work and Learning research program responds to the call for continuous learning, unlearning and reskilling through designing encounters and environments that are playful, welcoming, mindful and adaptive. Co-creating with educators, learners, workers and leaders, our applied research works with future-focused methodologies to unsettle out-of-date mental models, shift learning mindsets and envisage never-before-seen work practices and learning processes. Lisa is currently the Director of WonderLab, a diverse interdisciplinary learning community within the Emerging Technologies Lab and the home for design and ethnography PhD candidates from five continents with a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds.
Previously, Lisa has had decades of leadership experience, including roles as the Dean of Academic Initiatives at Parsons in New York, Head of Design at Monash and Post-graduate Research Director at RMIT in Melbourne. Lisa was born and raised in Aotearoa, New Zealand with whakapapa to Ngāti Kahungunu on her mother’s side and Pākeha from Waikato on her father’s side. Her undergraduate education's indigenous and interdisciplinary lessons underpin the integrative, pluralistic and relational orientation of her co-creative, participatory research and practice.
Designing for Transformative Learning: resources, narratives and case studies.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Design, Masters, RMIT University
Award Date: 1 Nov 2000
Design, PhD, RMIT University
Award Date: 31 Oct 2000
Fine Arts, Masters, RMIT University
Award Date: 30 Nov 1997
Design and American Studies, Bachelors, University of Canterbury
Award Date: 1 Nov 1991
Research area keywords
- Design Research
- Play and Pedagogy
- Transformative learning
- Behaviour Change
- Games
- Practice-based research
- Interdisciplinary Research
Network
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Innovative learning environments and teacher change
Imms, W., Grocott, L. H., Hattie, J. A., Kvan, T., Clark, D. J., Cleveland, B., newton, C. & fisher, K.
Education Directorate (Australian Capital Territory)
30/07/15 → 1/07/20
Project: Research
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A Goat Track Review
Grocott, L., 2023, In: Qualitative Studies. 8, 1, p. 279-281 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Wandering Feasts: Relational Orientations in Academic Writing
Grocott, L., Holman Jones, S., Sand, A-L., Skovbjerg, H. M. & Sumartojo, S., 2023, In: Qualitative Studies. 8, 1, p. 282-313 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A Family of Sensibilities: Toward a Relational Design Practice Grounded in Materiality and Embodiment
Diatta, M. D., Goncalves, R. D. & Grocott, L. H., 2022, In: Design and Culture. 14, 2, p. 205-229 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Design for Transformative Learning: A practical approach to memory-making and perspective-shifting
Grocott, L., 2022, 1st ed. Oxon, UK: Routledge. 285 p. (Design for Social Responsibility)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Understanding feminist anticipation through ‘back-talk’: 3 narratives of willful, deviant, and care-full co-design practices
Korsmeyer, H., Light, A. & Grocott, L., Feb 2022, In: Futures. 136, 15 p., 102874.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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Designing for Transformative Learning
Grocott, Lisa Helen (Recipient), 16 Sep 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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SEED/ing Transformative Change
Grocott, Lisa Helen (Recipient), 16 Mar 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Future Design Research Symposium
Lisa Grocott (Keynote/plenary speaker)
30 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Worlding Play
Lisa Helen Grocott (Organiser), Shanti Sumartojo (Invited speaker), Helle Marie Skovbjerg (Keynote/plenary speaker), Roger Manix (Keynote/plenary speaker), Stacy Jones (Invited speaker) & Mathias Poulsen (Invited speaker)
19 Sep 2022 → 20 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Melbourne Design Week 2021
Ilya Fridman (Contributor), Allison Edwards (Contributor) & Lisa Helen Grocott (Contributor)
30 Apr 2021Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
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ServDes.2020
Lisa Helen Grocott (Speaker) & Ilya Fridman (Speaker)
4 Feb 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Melbourne Design Week 2019
Wendy Ellerton (Contributor), Lisa Helen Grocott (Contributor) & Kate McEntee (Contributor)
18 Mar 2019Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event