Associate Professor Jonathon Allen

Adjunct Professor - School of Humanities and Com Arts,
Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts

Associate Professor,
Design (SoHCA)

Biography
Contact
Publications
Projects
Supervision
Teaching

Biography

Professor Jonathon Allen is Head of The Academy, Western Sydney University’s interdisciplinary program focusing on ethical leadership and critical thinking. The Academy currently services over 4500 students, providing extension-level academic development, community engaged service learning opportunities, international and national experiences and a range of professional and personal development workshops. It also runs the Bachelor of Applied Leadership and Critical Thinking degree.Jonathon has over 20 years’ university teaching and academic administration and leadership experience and has supervised many international award-winning students. From 2008-2010 he was Associate Head of School (Industrial Design) in the School of Engineering at the UWS, Provost of Penrith Campus from 2012-2014, and has previously lectured at Loughborough University, UK, Massey University, NZ, and Monash University.

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Qualifications

PhD Loughborough University of Technology

Professional Memberships

Australian Institute of Company Directors (2013 - 2014)
Design Research Society (2000 - 2014)
Board Director, Penrith Business Alliance (2012 - 2015)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Comm Arts
Design (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:	J.Allen@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:	(02) 4570 1305
Mobile:	0426821460
Location:	L4.G.06 HawkesburyParramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

100947 Design Thinking, 2012
101015 Information Design, 2015
101020 Design Research Training, 2012
101090 Design Project, 2014
101090 Design Project, 2015
101923 Australian Design, 2015
101924 Design Thinking, 2015
10943 Applied Ergonomics, 2008
300304 Sustainable Design: Materials Technology, 2008
300304 Sustainable Design: Materials Technology, 2009
300304 Sustainable Design: Materials Technology, 2010
300308 Design Studio 2: The Design Proposal, 2010
300773 Industrial Design Project (Commencement), 2008
300773 Industrial Design Project (Commencement), 2010
300774 Industrial Design Project (Completion), 2008
300774 Industrial Design Project (Completion), 2009
300774 Industrial Design Project (Completion), 2010
85032 Industrial Design Project (Commencement), 2009

Publications

Chapters in Books

Cohen, H., Sidoti, F., Gill, A., Mellick Lopes, A., Hatfield, M. and Allen, J. (2021), 'Sustainability, living labs and repair : approaches to climate change mitigation', Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene, Open Book Publishers 9781783749621.
Allen, J. (2014), 'The immaterial of materials', Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design, Butterworth-Heinemann 9780080993591.
Allen, J. (2012), 'Changing the fabric of society : an exploration of smart textiles in product design', Smart Design : First International Conference Proceedings, Springer-Verlag 9781447129745.
Allen, J. and Kouppas, P. (2012), 'Computer-aided design : past, present, future', Design and Designing : A Critical Introduction, Berg 9781847885777.
Allen, J. and Currie, G. (2007), 'Australians with disabilities: Transport disadvantage and disability', No Way to Go - Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities, Monash ePress 9780980361629.
Allen, J. (2004), 'Beyond Functionality - Product Semantics in Assistive Device Design', Designing a More Inclusive World, Springer 1852338199.

Journal Articles

Hardie, M., Allen, J. and Newell, G. (2013), 'Environmentally driven technical innovation by Australian construction SMEs', Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, vol 2, no 2 , pp 179 - 191.
Allen, J., Andrews, T. and Mellick Lopes, A. (2012), 'Industrial design is dead. Long live industrial design : adapting industrial design curricula in response to a climate-changed future and the current university climate', Industrial Design Educators Network Journal, vol 1, no 1 , pp 19 - 26.
Allen, J. (2005), 'Designing desirability in an Augmentative and Alternative Communication device', Universal Access in the Information Society Journal, vol 4, no 2 , pp 135 - 145.

Conference Papers

Robba, L., Wright, I., Allen, J. and Capon, A. (2021), 'Urban stream rehabilitation : enabling school children and community to 'visualise' a cleaner and healthier urban stream using art, science and the power of imagination', Australian Stream Management Conference, Online.
Huda, S., Allen, J., Sinclair, C., Andrews, T., Mellick Lopes, A., Duarte, F., Bambrick, H., Craig, D., Jeffery, M. and Campbell, S. (2010), 'Climate Change: Building Leadership Capacity within a Higher Education Institution', International Farming Systems Association Europe Group Conference, Vienna.
Andrews, T., Mellick Lopes, A. and Allen, J. (2010), 'Design and the University: a partnership for sustainable design', CONNECTED 2010, UNSW, Sydney.
Allen, J., Mellick Lopes, A. and Andrews, T. (2009), 'Futures West: A Design Research Initiative Promoting Sustainable Futures for Western Sydney', Cumulus 38? South 2009: Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and research, Melbourne, Australia.
Allen, J., Coxon, S., Richardson, M. and De Bono, A. (2007), 'Public transport design research initiative', ConnectED 2007 ? International Conference on Design Education, Australia.
Coxon, S., Allen, J. and De Bono, A. (2007), 'Collaborative international project 'Kitchen of the World' : a case study in multi-national groups undertaking design studio activity', International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K..
Coxon, S., Allen, J., De Bono, A. and Richardson, M. (2007), 'Design in the world kitchen : a case study in multi-national collaborative design education', ConnectED International Conference on Design Education, Sydney, N.S.W..
Coxon, S., Napper, R. and Allen, J. (2007), 'The role of industrial design in addressing the disparity between user perceptions of public and private transport', Australasian Transport Research Forum, Melbourne, Vic..
Napper, R., Coxon, S. and Allen, J. (2007), 'Bridging the divide: Design's role in improving multi-modal transport', Australasian Transport Research Forum, Melbourne, Vic..
Allen, J., Coxon, S. and Napper, R. (2007), 'Changing the climate of public transport : a design research initiative', Australasian Transport Research Forum, Melbourne, Vic..
Allen, J. (2006), 'Human augmentation: transference of design approaches from designing for sports to designing for disability', Wonderground: Design Research Society International Conference, UK.

Exhibitions

2021, 'Enquiring Minds: Exploration and Discovery in Colonial New South Wales'

Jonathon’s research interests span: smart design; design thinking; new and emerging materials and technologies; design's role in addressing social and environmental concerns; transport design; augmenting people's capabilities through perceptive design; designing for people with disabilities; and, design for sustainability. He’s interested in design’s role in enhancing the social and cultural landscape of people’s lives.

His current focus of research is in material intelligence and intelligent use of materials, and in the application of design thinking to addressing pressing concerns related to food security and climate change.