Chris Speed

Professor Chris Speed is Chair of Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh where his research focuses upon the Network Society, Design for the Digital Economy, and Sustainable Futures. Chris has been involved in 25 research grants (leading on 9) since 2009 across ESPRC, ESRC and AHRC, has published over 120 papers and presented widely on the role of design in the Digital Economy.

He now Co-Directs the Institute for Design Informatics, leads the Creative Informatics programme, and is Director for Innovation at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.