Researchers and research students

• Professor Penny Sparke, Director
• Dr Fiona Fisher
• Dr Ersi Ioannidou
• Dr Anke Jakob
• Professor Pat Kirkham
• Dr Stephen Knott
• Dr Patricia Lara-Betancourt
• Dr Jana Scholze

• Professor Alice Friedman
• Professor Charles Rice
• Catherine Ince, Senior Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Ana María Fernández García, University of Oviedo, Spain
• Dr Emma Ferry, Nottingham Trent University
• Dr Lisa Hockemeyer, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Dr Rebecca Preston, Royal Holloway
• Dr Paula Lupkin, University of North Texas, USA
• Dr Anca Lasc, Pratt Institute
• Dr Catharine Rossi
• Dr Sorcha O'Brien

Current research students

• Ben Angwin – Repositioning The Omega Workshops: Modern Patrons and Modern Markets
• Pete Collard – The Uses of Film in Architecture Exhibitions: Exploring a Dialectical Relationship
• Muireann Charleton - Irish Contemporary Craft Exhibitions: Shaping Perceptions of Irish Design
• Tracey Dalton – Design principles in Irish pub design (1950 to 2000). An indigenous and international study (PhD).
• Laura Elliott - Modernising the Victoria and Albert Museum: Transatlantic Exchanges in Museum Development from 1900 to 1955
• Andrea Foffa – Exhibition design and 'allestimento' as practice for research and contamination: the context of Italian architects, 1960-1980
• Felicity Hall – The professionalisation of floral design in London 1935 to 1960
• Neville Knott – TV Interior Design and Irish Domestic Interiors
• Alison Kowalski – Pipsan Saarinen Swanson (1905–1979), Designer of Modern Furnishings: With Special Reference to the Period 1929–1955
• Kerry Meakin – Pioneers of Department Store Display, Design and Practice in the UK and Ireland (1909-1959)
• Charlotte Samuels - Denise Wren and the Knox Guild of Design and Craft: Shifting the story of interwar studio ceramics from pot to process
• Catherine Sidwell – The significance of nature and the representation of birds in C.F.A. Voysey's decorative designs for the English domestic interior (1890-1910)
• Vanessa Vanden Berghe – Looking-beyond-Seeing: Imagining the Interior Designs of Oliver Hill