Lisa Helen Grocott

Lisa is the Director of WonderLab and Professor of Design at Monash University. Lisa’s research specifically examines the contribution of the people-centred, speculation-driven practice of design in interdisciplinary collaborations. Her collaborations with cognitive psychologists, education researchers and behavioral change experts has been awarded more than $2.5 million in ARC funding and applied industry research collaborations. Before coming to Monash Lisa spent the past 12 years at Parsons School of Design in New York where she was Dean of Academic Initiatives and core faculty in the Masters of Transdisciplinary Design. Lisa is an authority on the affordances of practice-based design research. 

At Monash she leads WonderLab a co-design research lab that operates at the intersection of design, learning and play. She is most excited about the pop-up PhD at the heart of WonderLab where an international cohort of candidates and supervisors roam the world for meet ups in different countries every year. Lisa is currently exploring how we shift beliefs and practices through her role as chief investigator of the ARC Linkage Project Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change.She was recently an experimenter-in-residence at the Hasso Plattner Institute at Stanford and keynote at the American Association of Colleges and Universities.