New Pragmatism and the Vocabulary and Metaphors of Scholarly Design Research

Gavin Melles is a lecturer in research degree skills with the Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). His interests are in the academization of design research, education, and the use of anthropology, and the social sciences in design. He has recently written about curriculum for international students in the journal of Art and Humanities in Higher Education, and visualization in doctoral projects for the journal Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, and has presented at international conferences (Connected07, Sydney, Australia; Design Research Society, Hong Kong) on the nature of transdisciplinarity in design research.