Sarah Palmer-Smith

Dr Sarah Palmer-Smith

  • spalmer at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic
  • Poole House P118, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Research

CROSS-CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT IN CHINA: PROBLEMS, POTENTIAL AND OPPORTUNITIES (EdD Thesis).

Cross-cultural engagement for design and engineering practitioners: investigation into the challenges of managing and overseeing projects in the cross cultural setting (China), using qualitative data from UK companies. Exploring the contextual and cultural implications of transnational practice; their impact and/or influence on the potential successful outcome of a project.

Further, investigation into the implementation of an experiential learning pedagogy in-context by engineering companies in order to develop employees for cross-cultural business. Using experiential learning to develop 'global skills' and cultural intelligence (CQ) in employees in order to improve potential project outcome.

Conferences

  • Garland, N., Wade, R. and Palmer, S., 2023. NON-EXPERT PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AI VISION SYSTEMS IN DESIGN ENGINEERING PROJECTS. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Responsible Innovation for Global Co-Habitation, E and PDE 2023, 7-12.
  • Garland, N., Wade, R., Glithro, R. and Palmer-Smith, S., 2019. Model based definition: Finally, the engineering drawing killer? Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019.
  • Garland, N., Khan, Z. and Palmer, S., 2012. Sustainable development primers for design students: A comparative study. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Design Education for Future Wellbeing, EPDE 2012, 617-624.

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Final Design Project (DBM), Final Design Project (Industrial Design), Contextual Design, Visualisation Tools, Masters Group Project (AY2016-7)

Grants

  • Measurement and Analysis of Structural Failures in High - Value Automotive British Heritage (QR Fund, 01 Mar 2022). Awarded
  • The identification, Measurement and Analysis of Structural Failures in High - Value Automotive British Heritage (HEIF, 13 May 2021). Completed

Internal Responsibilities

  • Placements Academic, Placements Office

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • STEM workshop via JDF Bursary Scheme (02 Nov 2015-27 May 2016)

Qualifications

  • Doctorate of Education (EdD) in Cross-Cultural Engagement; Design Engineering (University of Southampton, 2017)
  • MA in Computer Animation (Bournemouth University, 1991)
  • BA (Hons) in BA (Hons) Communication & Media Production (Comput (Bournemouth University (Polytechnic), 1990)
  • BTEC in Graphic Design & Packaging (Southampton (HE), 1985)