Dr Damian Chapman
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Across departments
- School of Computer Science and Mathematics
- School of Engineering
- School of Built Environment and Geography
- Penrhyn Road
Deputy Dean
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
As Deputy Dean, I chair the Faculty for Engineering, Computing and the Environment (ECE) Leadership Team, strategically guiding the development and direction of its three schools. I also serve as the Learning and Teaching lead for ECE, am a member of the university's Senior Leadership Executive and am an Academic Counsellor at Kingston University.
With over 30 years of leadership experience, I have consistently transformed siloed academic structures into collaborative, innovation-driven environments. My work spans curriculum design and consultancy for UK and international higher education institutions across design, computing, and engineering. I have developed a wide range of successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that foster creative thinking through making and respond to the evolving educational landscape.
My doctorate in Systems Design (KU/RCA) applied systems and agile design principles to transdisciplinary learning models in industry contexts, accelerating innovation. My research explores systems design at the intersection of second-order cybernetics and organisational theory, focusing on learning practices that reshape siloed cultures into dynamic, creative communities.
I am a member of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) and co-lead The Reading Group alongside Kate Doyle, TJ McLeish, and Patricia Machado Alvarez, a think tank for embodied research, learning, and creative archiving that is a nested studio initiative within the international #NewMacy movement (founded by Paul Pangaro in 2020).
Qualifications
- PhD - Information systems design June 2025
- PGCE in L&T (UAL) 2005
- MA (CSM) 1999
- BA Hons 1st (CSM) 1993
Domains
Qualifications
- SFHEA
- PG Cert in L&T - Distinction
- FHEA
- Chapman, D., Sullivan , M., (2025) Systems Design at the Intersection of Organisational Theory and 2nd Order Cybernetics. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design RSD14 Article No.: 2 URL: https://rsdsymposium.org/systems-design-and-2nd-order-cybernetics
- Chapman, D., Doyle, K., Machado, P., McLeish, TJ (2024) Prototyping a PechaKucha Conversation. RSD13 Research presentation
- Sullivan, M., Westermann, C., Doyle, K., Pangaro, P., Chapman, D., Kramer, J., Ziebell, J., Tuddenham, P., Zuo, A., Neese, B., Vander Auwera, P., Levings, D., (2024) The Little Books Zine Project: ASC60 #NewMacy group (https://newmacy.pubpub.org/little-books-zine)
- Chapman, D., Brujic-Okretic, V., (2023) International Symposium Co-lead: Kingston University Hub: Tensions Between Protection and Radical Change. Systemic Design Association symposium: https://rsdsymposium.org/rsd12-kingston-uk/
- Chapman, D., Doyle, K., Machado, P., McLeish, TJ (2023) Prototyping Conversation: Observing a cybernetic process of describing wicked challenges. RSD12.
- Chapman, D. (2023) Making-sense, as a creative process. Research presentation to the #NewMacy international research group.
- Bunnell, P., Castellanos, C., Chapman, D., Doyle, K, Fang, Z., Giancola, M., Lieber, M., McLeish, TJ., Pangaro, P., Pinsker, E., Richards, L., Silvaggio, E., Steier, F., Sullivan, M., Westermann, C. (2022) Becoming #New Macy (RSD11) https://rsdsymposium.org/new-macy-introduction-becoming/
- Bunnell, P., Castellanos, C., Chapman, D., Doyle, K, Fang, Z, X., Giancola, M., Lieber, M., McLeish, TJ., Pangaro, P., Pinsker, E., Richards, L., Silvaggio, E., Steier, F., Sullivan, M., Westermann, C. (2022) #NewMacy ACT III: Reintroducing Stability RSD11, https://rsdsymposium.org/newmacy-act-iii-re-introducing-stability/
- Chapman, D., Doyle, K., McLeish, TJ., (2022) Prototyping Conversations. Relating Systems thinking and design (RSD11) Systemic Design Association Symposium (https://doi.org/10.21428/0e270dcf.279fda6b).
- Chapman, D. (2022) Research presentation: A design framework to enable better understanding of human factors in complex data streams in the Energy industry’s transition RCA: School of Design Student Research Symposium
- Chapman, D., Yilmaz, A., Conway, C., de Freitas, S., Reeves, T. (2021) D Chapman Research Development Chair: ‘A Question of HE: The future of digital technology in higher education’ School of Design, Kingston University:
- Chapman, D., Wang, S., (2020) Individual 'Trace' in Knowledge Space A novel design approach for human-systems interaction IHIET-AI 2020 ISBN: ISBN 978-3-030-44267-5 (Springer).
- Chapman, D., Wang, S., (2019) 'Trace: A Crucial Data Visualisation Method in Intelligent Manufacturing' INAIT 2019
- Phipps, L., Allen, R., Hartland, D., Chapman, D., Whitton, N., Thomson, S., Bryant, P., Hussein, A., Rowett, S., Scott, A.-M., Krohn, A., (2018) Next generation [digital] learning environments present and future (Chapter by D. Chapman 2018). JISC Rep.
- Chapman, D. (2017) RCA School of Design Trans-site research cluster symposium: CVT methodology in online learning design. Research presentation at the Royal College of Art
- Chapman, D. (2017) Factors that hinder and enhance learning within online and digital contexts from a design driven perspective. Research presentation at the Royal College of Art, MA GID lecture programme.
- Chapman, D., Owen, M. (2016) User-driven Design Strategies London School of Film, Media and Design Research and Doctoral Symposium. University of West London
- Chapman, D., (2015) Translating Medical Intervention via a cloud-based design framework. Research presentation at the Ealing School of Art, Design & Media Symposium
- Watt, C., Chapman, D., Misbah, W. (2013) Leveraging the fuzzy front end: Encouraging radical innovation: 7th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices at Chiba University. Japan
- Watt, C., Chapman, D., Angelis, J., (2012) Customer value and lean operations in Masters education; The International conference on Engineering and Product Design Education Artesis University College - Belgium.
- Derksen, U., Chapman, D., (2012) An Enterprise Intervention in Arts Education. The Creative Challenge; The European League of Institutes of the Arts: Teachers’ Academy Porto, Portugal
Specialisms
- Learning Design
- Information Systems
- Innovation Design
- Methods design
- Organisational learning
- Cybernetics / Design
- Communication design