Nan O'Sullivan

Nan pursues a learning environment in which our design graduates are well-versed, well-equipped, well-prepared and confident enough to confront the complex challenges of our time Nan's leadership in the teaching and learning environment saw her awarded the Victoria Early Career Teaching Excellence Award and the Victoria Equity and Diversity Excellence Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Nan's scholarship in shifting design education away from a Western universal to a culturally reflective and responsive model, and its influence on a global scale, was recognised in 2021, when she was awarded Principal Fellow HEA from Sheffield University (UK) as part of the UoS HE Academy.