Roger Coleman

Roger Coleman is Professor of Inclusive Design and Co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art, and an internationally renowned authority on the design effects of ageing populations.

The Centre builds on the DesignAge programme, which Roger has directed since 1991. In 1994 he established a European network specialising in design and ageing, and in 1995 the RCA was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of his work.

Roger was the recipient of a Ron Mace Universal Design Award in 2000, and a Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2001. His policy paper Living Longer: the new context for design (Design Council 2001), which makes recommendations to government and industry on design responses to population ageing, is one of several key publications. He also advises major companies on the implementation of inclusive design at a strategic level.

Trained in fine art, design history and philosophy at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, Roger was closely involved in the establishment of the Greater London Council's Technology Networks in the 1980s and ran his own R&D consultancy, London Innovation.

He has lectured extensively in the UK and overseas, and his writings on art, craft and design have been widely translated into other languages, including Japanese and Hebrew.