As a fashion knitwear designer for nine years, he worked as a fashion knitwear designer in both the luxury and high-street sectors. He returned to the UK in 2016 to study for a MA in Textile Design Innovation at Nottingham Trent University, where he developed practice-based research examining inclusivity in design and art. Nick is passionate about sustainable design practices in his teaching career. Utilizing analog and digital technologies, he encourages students to re-imagine and reduce waste in processes and materials.

Glenn joined Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2017 as a Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Development. He began lecturing at Swansea Institute of Higher Education (later Swansea Metropolitan University) in 2006. He became a Senior Lecturer when the University of Wales Trinity St Davids merged with him in 2015. After completing his PGCE in 2010 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Post Compulsory Education and Training in 2014, Glenn became a Senior Lecturer. In addition to programming and software design, he is interested in game design patterns and Linux and open-source software.

Clara is a Senior Lecturer in Product Design and Head of the Department CSAD’s BA, BSc, and MSc Product Design and BA and MA Fashion Design programs. Clara completed her post-doctoral studies in 2017, which aimed to understand the impact of social, economic, political, and cultural elements on the use of medical products in low-resource environments. She is a Cardiff Met’s User Centred Design Research (UCD-R) group member and works closely with the Cardiff School of Medicine, University Hospital Wales.

Taslima Begum is a senior lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Cardiff School of Technologies. Additionally, she is a guest lecturer at the University of South Wales in Creative Industries (Art, Media, and Design) and a researcher at Plymouth University in Trans-technology Research. As an advocate for charities that empower vulnerable and disadvantaged people, she previously worked as a Human Centred Design Researcher with PDR.