Hannah EllisInformation
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Design critic and researcher, working across design practice and education. More info coming soon. 





Year
TitleCategoryFocusOutcomes

2026GDEN Big Things
CritiquePedagogyTalk

2024–6
Design ReflectionsCritiqueDesign Brief, Workshop

2023
Rose Cottage: The suburban fantasy of house name signsResearchDesignTalk, Essay

2023Caring Through Making and Making Through CareResearchPedagogyWorkshop
2022
Student Experiences To and Through Graphic DesignResearchPedagogyWorkshop

2022
Critical ContextsCritiquePedagogyBrief, Workshop

2022
Making for Mental Health
ResearchPedagogyBrief, Workshop

2022
Design Capital 1: The CircuitCritiqueDesignBook, Talk

2021–4
In Action ResearchPedagogyWorkshops

2021Collaborative and Critical Design HistoriesCritiqueDesignWorkshop
2019
Modes of Criticsm 4: Radical Pedagogy CritiquePedagogyEssay

2018
Research → Practice
ResearchDesignWorkshop, Publication

2016
The Art of Everyday Life
CritiqueDesignPublication, Video, Exhibition
Education and Qualifications
SFHEA – Senior Fellowship Higher Education Academy
Advance HE

PGCert Academic Practice 
University of the Arts London

MA Visual Communication, 
Royal College of Art

BA Hons Graphic Arts and Design, 
Leeds Beckett University



Employment Teaching Fellow
    BA Hons Graphic Design
Coventry University
2024–present

External Examiner
    BA Hons Graphic Communication Design
    MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2022–present

    BA Hons Graphic Communication Design
Cardiff Metropolitan University
2022–present

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead
    Art and Design Department
Sheffield Hallam University
2021–2024

Senior Lecturer
    BA Hons Graphic Design
    Higher Degree Apprenticeship User Experience Design
    Higher Degree Apprenticeship Creative Digital Design 
Sheffield Hallam University
2020–2024

Senior Lecturer
    BA Hons Graphic Design
Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London
2018–2020

Associate Lecturer
    MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2019–2020



AwardsSociety of Name Studies in Britain and Ireland Essay Prize
2023



Talks and InterviewsDesign Capital 1: The Circuit – in conversation with Silvio Lorusso
MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon
2022

Episode #43: Hannah Ellis
Scratching the Surface podcast with Jarrett Fuller
2017






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