Dr Joanna Boehnert

Joanna is a Lecturer in Design and the Creative Industries at Loughborough University; she completed an AHRC-funded PhD in Design at the University of Brighton in 2012, and gained an MA from the University of Arts London and a BA Honours with distinction at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

In 2006, she founded EcoLabs in London as a design research studio engaged with the visual communication of complex environmental problems. She conducted a practice-based research project called ‘Mapping Climate Communication’ during a CIRES Visiting Fellowship at Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Next, she wrote her book Design, Ecology, Politics: Toward the Ecocene while working as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. Immediately before joining Loughborough University, she led a research project on the visual communication of complexity at the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) at the University of Surrey.

She currently works with us on the ESRC funded Powering Productivity project, exploring links between energy, wellbeing and the UK’s productivity puzzle.