The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Mr Michael Dickinson
School: School of Design, Communication and Information Technology
Commenced with Institution: 21-FEB-2000
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Mr Michael Dickinson 1 University of Newcastle Project - Early Career Researcher Grant D=E* Enhancing Interest: 'Design-Based Educational Research' in a Tertiary Design course   10000  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2008 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant IEEE ROBIO 2008 International conference on robotics and biominetics, Bangkok, Thailand, 14/12/2008 - 17/12/2008   2500  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2007 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Designing Designers 2007 International Convention of University Courses in Design, Milan Italy, 18/4/2007 - 23/4/2007   1700  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2005 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant EAD06 design>system>evolution: 6th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, 29 - 31 March 2005, Germany   2400  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2004 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 2nd International Conference CLTAD: Enhancing Curricula: Towards the Scholarship of Teaching in Art, Design and Communications, 15 - 16 April 2004, Spain   2400  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2003 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant DPPI 03 International Conference on Designing pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 23-26 June, 2003   2400  
Mr Michael Dickinson 2002 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant 'Future History'   2133  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
M Philosophy (Design) Principal Supervisor Drawing Now: The Relevance of Drawing, New Directions in the 21st Century

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.200

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
M Design [R] 2008 Navigational System and Desktop Environment Design Within the Virtual Space

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Conference Publication

Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’A re-assessment of design thinking through the experience of jury duty in a murder trial’, ConnectED'07, International Conference of Design Education. Proceedings, Sydney (2007) [E1]

Lawrence Christopher Charles, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Chalup Stephan, ’Designing charm: Harnessing the affective power of form in robotic development’, ConnectED'07, International Conference of Design Education. Proceedings, Sydney (2007) [E1]

Chalup Stephan, Dickinson Michael Rivers, Fisher Robin David, Middleton Richard Hume, Quinlan Michael Joseph, Turner Peter David, ’Proposal of a Kit-Style Robot as the New Standard Platform for the Four-Legged League’, Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics & Automation, Auckland, New Zealand (2006) [E1]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’Design: a harnessing of unintelligible causes’, Design Systems Evolution: EAD 06, Bremen, Germany (2005) [E1]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’Design scholarship: as we explore looking outwards to the theoretical principles and practice of other disciplines, is anyone looking at us?’, Enhancing Curricula, Barcelona, Spain (2004) [E1]

Eddison Antony James, Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’Design research and the five-legged dog’, Doctoral Studies in Education and the Creative and Performing Arts - Program & Abstract Book, Newcastle, Australia (2003) [E2]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’The 'story' as an alternative mechanism for revealing the silent language of objects’, ACUADS Conference 2003, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Art (2003) [E1]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, ’Umm and the Matchbox 'The Object of Desire and the Desired Object'’, International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces dppi03, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2003) [E1]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, Clement Carol Anne, ’An Analysis of Developments Arising from Technology’, Future History Papers, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst and University of Illinois, Chicago (2002) [E2]

Other Creative Work

Dickinson Michael Rivers, D: Brief - Intrados Exhibition, Intrados Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (2003) [F3]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, D: Brief - Rocketart Exhibition, Rocketart Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (2003) [F3]

Dickinson Michael Rivers, D: Brief - Watt Space Exhibition, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (2003) [F3]

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