Anne Chick is Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre. Until 2006 she was Director of the Sustainability in Practice Network within WestFocus (a consortium of seven universities www.westfocus.org.uk). She is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada. Chick is an Associate Editor on the Design Journal and a Design Studies journal referee. Her sustainable design research, knowledge transfer and educational work has been acknowledged in a number of government reports and publications.

She has been an academic pioneer in this area for over fifteen years. Chick was the co-founder of the Centre for Sustainable Design and author of the Graphic Designer’s Greenbook: A Handbook and Source Guide on Design and the Environment. Reviewed by Treehugger as: ‘the book that got the ball rolling back in 1992. An excellent book, full of useful insights and information but sadly now out of print’.

Over the past four years she has directed a number of funded research and enterprise programmes worth over £1.5M and published in refereed journals, international conferences and chapters in books.

For further detail please visit: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/design/research/chick/index.html