Dr Jennifer Whyte
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Jennifer Whyte is Reader in Innovation and Design in the School of Construction Management and Engineering. Her work involves close collaboration with industrial partners to understand innovation and design practices within organizations. She has a particular interest in the role of digital technologies in the governance of large projects. These are being explored through the current ICRC project: Infrastructure through Life: Technology use in global projects. Her previous research on design has had both practical and academic impact. She provided advice to George Cox and co-authored a 'think-piece' for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (with Profs John Bessant and Andrew Neely) that informed the UK government's Cox Report on Design and Creativity. She was the keynote speaker at the Audi Design Foundation's 10th Annual Dinner in January 2007, based on her work on 'Skills for Innovation in the Design Industries.' She also provided research input into the development of the Construction Industry Council's Design Quality Indicators (DQIs), which are now widely used across the UK construction industry, and she sits on their Development Board. Her deep interests in technologies and complex organizing, visual practices and visualization, simulation and prototyping tools led to publications in international journals, including Building Research and Information, Construction Management and Economics, Design Studies, Long Range Planning, Organization Studies and Strategic Organization.
Jennifer acts as a consultant to industry in the areas of digital technologies and organizing. She joined the University of Reading in 2007 and was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Tanaka Business School in Imperial College London. She works with a range of industrial partners including ARUP, Laing O’Rourke, BAA, Mott Macdonald, IDEO, Edward Cullinan Architects, Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, Audi Design Foundation, Construction Industry Council and Institute of Structural Engineers.
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E-mail Dr Jennifer Whyte at: j.whyte@reading.ac.uk