Miss Kirsten Hardie
- Job title: Principal Lecturer
- Organisation: Arts Institute at Bournemouth
- Email: Kirsten Hardie
National Teaching Fellow 2004
Kirsten Hardie (NTF 2004) is Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design History and Cultural Theory at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. Kirsten has extensive teaching experience across a range of levels and disciplines within art, design and media. Her passions, research and scholarly activities extend across a range of diverse fields.
Working internationally, cross-discipline, creating and developing learning and teaching case-studies and materials, her activities extend to a significant number of collaborative and advisory roles across HE – including External Examinerships.
Kirsten’s research includes scholarship of teaching and learning in art and design; creativity; packaging design; kitsch and flock. She has authored a range of articles and papers and is an experienced conference and event organiser. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Flockage: the flock phenomenon – the world’s first flock exhibition - and co-founded the Flock Friendly Group. She created her home institution’s registered design museum and works with museums and design objects.
A popular speaker and workshop facilitator, she has presented at many conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia and networks internationally with educational establishments and design organisations. Her membership includes: Executive Committee Design History Society (2004-2008); AIGA, ISSOTL, and STLHE.
She is Vice Chair of Reference Group Higher Education Academy Art Design and Media Subject Centre (2009) and Chair 2010. She is committee member of the ANTF.
Kirsten's NTF award funded the development of her On Trial project: experiential, student-centred, problem-based role play learning and teaching. Inspired by the mock trial of legal education/practice and in the popular media, she works with colleagues cross-discipline to develop this learning experience. On Trial work is used extensively across a variety of contexts internationally. She is currently completing a website to make more public her On Trial work; to enable others to adopt and adapt accordingly.
Kirsten is member of the 'Creative Interventions: valuing and assessing creativity in student work-related learning in the public and not-for-profit sectors' NTF Project (2008-2010), working with colleagues from the University of the Arts London and the University of Surrey.
Her research themes: threshold concepts; problem-based learning; groupwork; visual plagiarism; and notions of excellence.
