Invited Speakers

Roger Coleman is Professor Emeritus of the Royal College of Art. He is on the Helen Hamlyn Centre's Board of Advisers and on advisory boards for it's healthcare research programmes. Roger co-founded and co-directed the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre from 1999 to 2006 and was Professor of Inclusive Design at the Royal College of Art until July 2008.

The Helen Hamlyn Centre builds on the internationally respected DesignAge programme, which Roger directed from its launch in 1991. In 1994 he established a European network specialising in design and ageing, and in 1995 the RCA was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of his work.

In 2001 he authored a UK Design Council Policy Paper 'Living Longer: the new context for design', making recommendations to government and industry on design responses to population ageing. In 2003 he co-led a team from the RCA and the Universities of Cambridge and Surry in a study commissioned by the UK Department of Health into how the effective use of design can reduce medical accidents. In 2005 he was made Vice-President of the College of Occupational Therapists in 2005, and played a leading role in drafting BS7000-6 (2005) on inclusive design management.

Awards: 2000 Ron Mace Universal Design Award; 2001; Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education; 2005, President's Medal of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors UK (IEHF). 2010, William Floyd Award of the IEHF.

A fuller biography and selected list of his many publications is available at http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/214/all/1/Roger_Coleman.aspx