Professor Tom Inns
BEng(Hons) DIC MDes(RCA) PhD
Taught Masters Programmes Lecturer
Teaching 2010/2011
- MN5402 Strategic Product Development
Biography
Tom Inns is Professor of Design at the University of Dundee. Tom started his career with Rolls-Royce PLC (Aeroengines). After completing his Masters at the Royal College of Art in 1990 he worked as a designer and researcher on a variety projects in which design thinking was used as a problem solving process. He was appointed as Director of the Design Research Centre (DRC), Brunel University in 1996. At the DRC he worked extensively with small companies through the then 'TCS' programme and developed a series of design audit methodologies with the Design Council, Business Links and DTI. In 2000 he was appointed as Professor of Design at the University of Dundee. Between 2001 and 2004 he was Head of the School of Design. In 2004 he was appointed as Director of the AHRC and EPSRC funded Designing for the 21st Century Initiative. He has a strong research interest in the future of design and the way design is used as a strategic tool within business. Tom regularly designs and facilitates knowledge sharing events and workshops both internally within the University of Dundee and with other organisations. Recent clients include NESTA, UK Design Council, ARDI Rhone Alps, UKERC, Institute of Materials and the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation.