Personal profile
Biography
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Professor Steven Kyffin was appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Enterprise) in September 2016, having previously been Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences since September 2012 and Dean of Northumbria School of Design since January 2010.
Before joining Northumbria University, from 1998, Steven spent 12 years with Royal Philips Electronics in the Netherlands, where he was Senior Director of Design Research and Innovation, responsible for Design Research world-wide, a member of the Philips Design Global Management Team, and headed up Philips Design's European Commission Research activities.
During the early part of his career, he worked on a wide range of assignments for several London based design consultancies. In 1988 he started his own design company and in the early 1990s joined the academic staff at the RCA, becoming Director of Industrial Design from 1995-98.
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Steven holds an Adjunct Professorship in Monash University, Melbourne Australia. He was Chief Scientific Officer (Design Research) and core member of the 'driving team' in the founding of the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Eindhoven
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Education/Academic qualification
Civil Law, Honorary Doctorate, Northumbria University
… → 2009
Design, Master, Royal College of Art (United Kingdom)
1981 → 1984
Industrial Design, Honours, Northumbria University
1977 → 1981
External positions
Fellow, Royal College of Art (United Kingdom)
1995 → 2020
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
1991 → 1998
Member, Chartered Society of Designers
1989 → 1998
Research area keywords
- industrial design
- design