At the PhD By Design conference we asked 90 PhD researchers to map the information resources that they use and find useful. We have compiled these as lists in the following sections.
What technology/websites/apps would you recommend for making research easier?
Technology:
- Scrivener (writing)
- Scapple (mapping stuff)
- Zotero (references, organizing notes and transcriptions)
- Evernote (online notebook – professional version has OCR recognition so you can scan and digitalise your notes)
- Mendeley (reference manager)
- Sensecam – for participant ethnography, makes an image every couple of seconds
- Wacom Pen – to animate/scan participants drawings
- Fashion web archives. ex. Business of Fashion.
- Thunderbird - mail
- nvivo
- Instapaper - save papers your read
- Papers for MAC - a new type of word
- aaaaaaarg (illegal)
- aaaaaarg.fail
Websites:
Bookends (Referencing software)
Endnote (Referencing software)
Google Drive
- Academia.edu
- maketools.com
- cowbird.com (story telling website, really beautiful)
- Sanders (lots of great papers and design tool ideas -> free downloads)
- Ethos
- Slideshare
- www.designresearchtequniches.com
- Open Street Map
- Dropbox
- DPP – Design Philosophy Papers
- Google Sketch Up
- Thinkbuzan.com (how to mindmap)
- Google Bookmarks
- Trello (organiser)
- instructables.com
- JSTOR
- Elsevier
- ACM
- SAGE
- opentranscripts.org
- Github
Apps:
- VoodooPad
- Storify (putting together different materials – writings, clips, recordings, etc.)
- Notability (for iPad)
- PhD Design List
- DRS mailing list
- #nsmnss “Blogs on Blurring the Boundaries”
- Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO)
- Design Calls (Journal)
- J.A.R – Journal Artistic Research (Journal)
- Open Humanities Press Technographies
- SHE JI – Journal Shanghai
- Mellel (word processor)
- TeuxDeux (to-do app)
- Coffictvity – streams sound of a coffee shop at work
- Pomodoro Timer (physical or app)
ANY ADVICE ON FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES?
- AHRC
- Switzerland: HES-SO, SNF
- Horizon 2020
- Women in Research Practice
What (design) conferences or meetings would you recommend not to miss?
- European Academy of Design
- Nordes, Sweden 2015
- DART
- Design4Health, Sheffield – July 14-16 2015
- Serious Games
- ServDes, Lancaster
- Visual Insights, Newcastle
- ELIA, Glasgow, 13-15 November 2014
- Building Local Resilience: Architecture on a Human Scale, Sheffield School of Architecture, September 2015
- Include, London
- AHRC events
- London Doctoral Design Centre events
- Glasgow School of Art Research Conference, 4 December 2014
- Sheffield Docfest, June 5-10 2015
- Research Through Design, Cambridge, 25th - 27th March 2015
- SKIP (skills in practice), UAL/UCA (from 2012/3)
- Society of the query
- Design Research Society
- Parse Conference
- Participatory Design Conference
- Design Indaba
- RSA events
- REUSE China, sponsored by the British Council
- Typo Talks (Berlin and San Francisco)
- Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
- Computer Human Interaction conference (CHI) 2015
- MAKING, Norway (2012)
- Design Thinkers, Toronto
- In the loop, Glasgow 2015 (knitting)
- DESIS Network, conferences, calls, events, cluster of R&D departments with Design Schools (social innovation & sustainability)
- Cumulus Conferences
- Sensuous Knowledge, Norway
- Insight 2015, 23rd - 24th January 2015, India
- Disruptive Innovation Festival
- CREST – research summer school
- PhD student workshop, Coventry University
- DESMA network: Design and management.
- TEI conf. 2016 in Eindhoven (Interaction Design)
- Interaction 16 in Helsinki. (Interaction Design)
- WCC-BF Conf. (Belgium)
- Making futures (Plymouth)
- Cumulus (Milan)
- Makeshift (Crafts Council)
- CHI (Human Computer Interaction)
- British HCI
- TUX (User groups and developers)
- AHRA (Architecture)
- DIS (Designing Interactive Systems)
- L I ft (Innovation and Digital tech.)
- Sensuous Knowledge (artistic research)
- Future everything
- 4s
- EASST
- Critical studies
- Art of Research
- Marie Curie traders
- ACADIA (USA)
- DHS DESIGN HISTORY Society
- ALVAR AALTO
- Resonate (Technology, Arts, Culture)
- Transmediale, Dutch Design week
- Technologies knowledges and society conference
- Futurezwei (Germany)
- Social Science and Humanities
Any good research institutes you know of?
- Akademie der bildenden Kunste Wien
- Image Knowledge (Berlin)
- Lab4Living, Sheffield
- Tu Delft (Berlin)
- C3RT!
- Cultural Lab, Newcastle University
- Institute of Design Innovation at Glasgow School of Art (InDI)
- Craft Council, UK
- Design Council, UK
- Institute for Network Cultures, NL
- Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art
- Medea Research Institute, Malmö
- Interaction Design Institute Copenhagen
- Interactive Institute of Sweden
- CRISP, Netherlands
- Body-Data-Space (London)
- CREST, Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training