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Knowledge Media Design is an interdisciplinary grouping comprising researchers and practitioners in the fields of graphic design, photography, video, multimedia, ergonomics and learning technologies.

Our work cross-fertilises and synthesises research in these disparate fields and applies the results to contemporary issues of information design, knowledge management and transfer in the context of new digital technologies.

Latest News

"hours of good rational leisure"

This year saw the completion and launch of Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 (ERPS). This is a research database of over 45000 records from the annual exhibition catalogues of the Photographic Society, London, published between 1870 and 1915.

Reactions from researchers have been overwhelming:

• "It's a fantastic piece of work."
• "It is an extraordinarily useful resource."
• "A fantastically useful research tool."
• "Congratulations, it is a wonderful achievement and thank you for affording me what the Victorians would have called 'hours of good rational leisure.'"

Read more about Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915.>

To see our complete catalogue of photographic history sites follow this link.

Other Recent Projects

Creativity network

We also received an award from the AHRC, the EPSRC, the DTI and the Arts Council to organise a research network to develop common language and concepts in order to facilitate further and closer research collaboration between the arts, humanities and sciences.

AHDS Review / User Survey

During the summer of 2006 KMD was commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to carry out a Review and User Survey of the Arts and Humanities Data Service. The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) is a UK-wide national data service serving the arts and humanities education community. Our review, conducted in partnership with Sheffield University, assisted the JISC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to decide:

• Whether or not the service contributions to research, teaching and learning offer value for money.
• Whether or not the financial support for the service should be renewed beyond.
• Whether or not and what realistic future enhancements or modifications should be made to the service if it should continue.

Knowledge Media Design completed two projects throughout 2005 / 2006.

The first project, ICT Guides, is the result of a JISC-funded ICT awareness programme for Arts and Humanities researchers. The second, RePAH, was an information-gathering project to discover the behaviour and needs of researchers in the Arts and Humanities with respect to Internet portals.

We have also contributed to one of DMU's teaching modules, Objects of Desire: a final year module for students interested in careers in museums, galleries, sale rooms, dealers and historic buildings.

Visit the ICT Guides >

More about RePAH >

More about Objects of Desire >

Some more of our projects

You can find out a lot more about the work we are currently undertaking or have completed in the Projects section.

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