Paul Fairhead

Paul is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University. His post graduate and undergraduate teaching spans service design, design strategy, user experience and digital product design, drawing on a career across business, design and organisational leadership in Australia and Vietnam. 

 

Before entering academia, Paul led businesses and worked with organisations to develop their design and innovation capabilities. As CEO of Huddle, he supported the design consultancy’s expansion across Melbourne, Sydney and Amsterdam. His experience also includes coaching for Google’s Innovation Labs across the Asia-Pacific region and serving as  National President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam. for over 7 years

 

Paul’s research explores how distributed expertise, relationships and different forms of value contribute to collective capability, with a particular interest in the conditions that enable institutional alignment to be sustained and renewed. He is undertaking higher degree research at RMIT, examining these questions through communities of practice and collaboration within design education.

 

He has also served as Project Manager on a RMIT interdisciplanary project , also contributing to research, on the social benefits of public art at Sydney Metro stations, an iMOVE CRC project undertaken with Transport for NSW and Sydney Metro.