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Consultants, Our D&T Independent Consultants offer a range of services on an independent, commercial basis. We also work alongside Local Authority Consultants employed by and confined to working within a Local Authority. Consultant members offer a range of services in support of design and technology practitioners and often work with the Association on a variety of D&T projects. Suitably qualified and experienced design and technology consultants can apply to become a Registered Design and Technology Health & Safety Consultant (RDTHSC), enabling them to provide training and accreditation to the D
Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design, Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design This resource has been developed with the Intellectual Property Office to help teachers and students to understand the implications of IP in product design. It consist of five PowerPoint classroom teaching presentations and associated materials that schools can use and adapt, in which the students develop their ideas and realise the importance of securing the intellectual property, and two videos outlining IP and the associated 'business days' that schools can deliver in which students’...
Chief Executive of ACID, Dids MacDonald OBE, Podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation. Listen now. We talk with Dids Macdonald OBE Co-founder and Chief Executive of ACID (Anti-copying in Design). At the time of recording, Dids was also Master of The Furniture Makers Company, the City of London livery company and charity for the furniture industry. We were joined in the conversation by Anne Sampson, who was the outgoing Educational Events and Campaigns...
The changing face of textiles, I know many fellow textiles specialists are concerned about how textile fits in to the new GCSE fearing a reduction in creativity and the loss of the unique nature of textiles as a material area. I completely agree it’s important to retain everything that is special about textiles, but I also support the broader focus that the new single GCSE offers. Rather than restricting creativity, the new GCSE has the potential to allow us to focus both on...
Jim Stewart, Jim studied and practiced as a designer and craftsman before training as a teacher, where he retired from leading the Technology Faculty in a secondary school in 2022, having just successfully lead the curriculum area through the new Ofsted framework. In his time within secondary, further and university education, Jim has had varied experiences. These include leading on skills transfers within Knowledge Transfer Partnerships between education and industry, writing on design history, to having taught craft and manufacture to featured leading designers now appearing in Designing. He has spent many years developing...
Barry Coggan, My initial teaching qualification was achieved at Loughborough College of Education where great emphasis was placed on excellent hand skills and a thorough knowledge of the materials being worked, both traditional (all aspects of woodworking and metalworking) and modern (‘new’ materials including plastics and electronics). Having taught in all types of schools across the broad ‘handicraft’ curriculum since 1971, along with experience as a local authority specialist adviser, considerable involvement with examination boards along with RDTHSC status and a period in the industrial commercial side of education, I can...
Felicity Milton, Felicity is the Global Senior Director of Team Sport TECH at adidas. She is a native 'intrapreneur' with a background in Mechanical Engineering (MEng – Durham University) and coming up to two decades of building, scaling, and failing new end-to-end business models - from sports technologies, 3D apparel and footwear creation, Start-Up incubators, to data driven, made to order customization platforms for ‘lot size one’ robotic manufacture. Design and Technology alongside sport has been the red thread running through her career and core to her life pleasures and...
Vice Dean for Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Lynne Bianchi, In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by Dr Lynne Bianchi. Lynne is Vice Dean for Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Director of the Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub & Senior Lecturer at Manchester University. A staunch advocate of STEM and vocational education, we track Lynne's journey from her school days, which did not pass without challenge, to her current role at Manchester University and how this came to her through a slightly unorthodox...
Projects on a Page: Late Key Stage 2 Pack of Ten Planners, Two new planners for 2023 Year 3-6 The Key Practitioners- focuses on a selection of recommended key individuals from across the design and technology specialisms. This is focused for KS2 but can be delivered at any time across those year groups. The planner gives your ideas for how you can incorporate key individuals into your planning and units of work as well as giving you an overview
Peter Upton, Pete graduated from Shoreditch College (Brunel University) in 1982 Bed (Hons) and has taught Design and Technology in a variety of educational settings in Manchester, London, Spain and Cheshire. Over 40 years’ experience of using workshop machinery and classroom management skills to maximise the safety and learning of his students, ensures his courses are underpinned by first-hand experience. Pete is a Registered D&T Health & Safety Consultant and offers a range of DATA courses both Nationally and Internationally which can be tailored to your requirements...
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