Dr Ollie Hemstock

Assistant Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

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Key Publications

Design Facilitation: mid-term impacts and outcomes of a design-led innovation readiness programme for micro-SMEs, Bailey, M., Carrion-Weiss, J., Albaqali, B., Spencer, N., Hemstock, O., Richardson, C. 6 Aug 2024, The 24th dmi:Academic Design Management Conference Proceedings, Design Management Institute
Final degree shows: culmination or invitation?, Simmons, H., Bailey, M., Spencer, N., Hemstock, O., Mutambo, N. 7 Sep 2023, DS 123, Glasgow, The Design Society
Innovation Constellations as a systems approach to social design infrastructuring, Spencer, N., Simmons, H., Bailey, M., Hemstock, O., Carrion-Weiss, J. 20 Jul 2022, In: Academic Design Management Conference Proceedings
Three degrees of influence in virtual workshops: towards an understanding of co-creative facilitation practice in technologically mediated settings, Hemstock, O., Bailey, M., Spencer, N., Simmons, H., Coombs, S., Carrion-Weiss, J., Richardson, C. 25 Jun 2022, Proceedings of DRS2022 Bilbao, London, Design Research Society
Tipping points in design-led collaboration: attending to moments of emergence in design facilitation practice, Hemstock, O., Simmons, H., Bailey, M., Spencer, N., Coombs, S. 20 Jul 2022, dmi:ADMC 2022: DESIGN AS A STRATEGIC ASSET : Academic Design Management Conference, Cambridge, US, Design Management Institute
Exploring the strategic value of slow design: understanding potential benefits to the commercial setting, Hemstock, O. 2019
Slow knowledge in the ‘real world’: Using slow practice to actively engage commercial collaborators in doctoral research, Hemstock, O., Spencer, N. 31 May 2019, In: The Design Journal

Qualifications

Design Studies PhD July 29 2020
Design Studies MA January 18 2016

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