Teaching and Speaking

Steve’s Future Speaking Engagements:

• Watch this space!

Steve’s past chairing, speaking and teaching engagements:

Chairing:

• Panel Chair at the Global Design Forum, London Design Festival, V&A Museum for the subject of dementia and neuro-diverse friendly design, 23rd September 2021

• Schumacher Institute Conference: “Designing Environments as if People Matter?” London, 15th November 2016

Speaking:

• Panellist at the SNC Lavalin Group’s webinar event on “Inclusive Design,” 14th October 2021
• Speaker at the Landscape Institute on “Designing for User Experience – mobility, sensory and neurological” 8th June 2021
• Speaker at University of Bristol s “Urban Vision” workshop, 19th April 2018
• “Designing for People” at joint Schumacher Institute and William Morris Society event, Gloucestershire, 18th October 2017
• National Autistic Society Conference: “Autism-friendly Design,”  Manchester, 1st November 2016
• “The Significance of Context” at Assisted Living Action Network, Bristol 8th June 2016
• Introducing Access Consultancy at Unlocking the Potential of Accessible & Inclusive Tourism workshop conference, Ryde, the Isle of White, 1st March 2016
• BSI “Design for the Mind” – consultation conference, 5th November 2015
• “Designing For Mind and Body” at the Learning Environments Conference, London, July 2015
• “Designing For Mind and Body” at the Workplace Trends Conference, London, October 2014
• UX “On and off the Webpage”, for SWUX, Bristol, 2013
• “Standards: Issues and Challenges,” BSI Facilities Management event, London, 2013
• A number of speaking engagements for national NRAC conferences and a London Access Association audience on neurological needs and also way-finding

Debating:

• Panel speaker for Autism Friendly Design, NAS Conference, 9th October 2015
• “Is our View of Place to Short-Sighted?” debate for Glass-House’s “To a more Ambitious Place” debate series, Bristol, February 2015
• Panel Speaker for BSI Conference,  “Smart Standards for Smart Cities” Bristol, 2013
• Panel Speaker for World Information Architecture Day, Bristol, February 2013

Teaching:

• Lecture to postgraduate Planning students at UWE, April 2018
• Studio tutoring University of Bath undergraduate students in Architecture (4th Year) Spring 2016, 2017 and 2018
• Lecture at University of Bath Masters students in Architecture (5th Year) about Health and Social aspects of Sustainability, Spring 2016, 2017 and 2018
• Lecture on Inclusive Design to undergraduate Architecture and Planning Students at UWE, February 2017
• Tutoring undergraduate Architecture and Planning students at UWE, December 2017
• Lecture at UCL Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings MSc, Autumn 2017 on “Designing Inclusively whilst Designing for the Mind”
• Lecture at Oxford Brookes RIBA Part 3 course, Summer 2017 on “Integrated and Sustainable Inclusive Architecture”
• Teaching day course on Influencing New Projects for BIFM, 29th Nov 2016
• Lecture at UWE Masters students in Surveying about enabling design, May 2015
• Running a “Design For the Mind” training event via the Centre for Accessible Environments, 2014
• CPD for Kendall Kingscott, Bristol, 2014
• Several in-house CPD sessions for Stride Treglown, Bristol
• Visiting tutor for undergraduate Architecture students at Plymouth University

Mentoring:

• Mentoring of volunteers to Bristol European Green Capital 2015 via Change Agents and the Schumacher Institute
• Mentoring Staff at Stride Treglown
• Providing one-off inputs for various studies undertaken by undergraduate and post graduate students on topics such as:
  • Positive mental health environment (Ateneo de Davao University)
  • Autism in the work place (UCL)
  • Therapeutic spaces (UCL)
  • Responses to housing shortages (Bristol);
  • Urban political ecology (Bristol);
  • Wheelchair housing provision (King’s College);
  • Product design and cognitive needs (Loughborough);
  • Shared surfaces in external environments (UWE);
  • The needs of people with learning difficulties (Curtin, Perth, Australia);
  • Domestic environments and children with autism (Australia);
  • School design and children with autism (Salford).