Dr Matthew Lickiss
- Position: Associate Professor – Graphic and Communication Design
- Areas of expertise: Information Design; Communication Design; Typography; User-Centred Design; User Experience (UX) Design; Disaster and Health Communication Design; Multimodality,
- Email: M.Lickiss@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 1.67 Clothworkers Central
Profile
As one of the Pro-Deans for Student Education for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Cultures I am responsible for the quality assurance, standards and quality enhancement of the faculty's learning and teaching provision. I have previously been the Director of Student Education in the School of Design, as the well as the programme leader for the BA Graphic and Communication Design.
I am an Associate Professor of Graphic and Communication Design, teaching and researching in the area of information design and typography (see below for specifics).
Prior to joining the University of Leeds, I held permanent lectureships first at Brunel University London (Brunel Design School) and then at The University of Reading (Department of Typography & Graphic Communication).
Responsibilities
- Pro-Dean for Student Education
Research interests
- Information and UX design. With specific focus on the areas of: data visualisation, design for decision making (especially in relation to understanding and responding to risk and uncertainty), design for the environment, and design for health. All of these research areas combine the need to communicate information in a way that is useful and meaningful to end users.
- Multimodal linguistics and visible language. This interest stems from my PhD research, examining how meaning is made in communications, especially how the visual and design elements of ‘documents’ contribute to or change meaning across multiple modes and platforms.
Qualifications
- PhD | Typography and Graphic Communication | University of Reading, UK
- MA | Information Design | University of Reading, UK
- BA | Graphic Communication | University of Reading, UK
Student education
I teach a variety of subjects within communication design at all levels, from undergraduate, to masters, to and professional development. Within this I specialise in topics relating to information design and user experience design, typography, and how communication design makes meaning for people. At present I do less direct teaching, while I fulfil a student education leadership role for the faculty.