Simon Scott-Harden

An experienced industrial design practitioner, academic and researcher based at Northumbria University. His research and expertise is centred around on how design can help develop new tools and techniques to open up new opportunities within the global Curricular Economy.

A student of The University of Glasgow and The Glasgow School of Art, he developed his practice by working for a number of global companies before setting up his own product and industrial design consultancy working with a varied client base developing consumer, sports and healthcare products.

Over the years he have also been involved in a number of spin out companies taking his own products to market, from initial conception through to production, and the creation and development of the associated Intellectual Property. In 2009 he combined his commercial practice with a lecturing role on the Product Design (BA Hons) course based at the School of Design lecturing in industrial and product design.

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• Batch 45: Design for Industry 2020 - 2024, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 12 May 2025
• Batch 44: Design for Industry 2019 - 2023, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 15 Jan 2024
• Prevalence and characterisation of microfibres along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast, Kechi-Okafor, C., Khan, F., Al-Naimi , U., Beguerie, V., Gallidabino, M., Scott-Harden, S., Sheridan, K. 23 Feb 2023, In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• Batch 43: Design for Industry 2018 - 2022, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 26 Sep 2022
• Plastic: Remaking Our World - Vitra Design Museum, V&A and maat Lisbon: Plastic: Remaking Our WorldThe Flipflopi Project Model, Scott-Harden, S. 26 Mar 2022
• Batch 42: Finding Form: Design for Industry 2017 - 2021, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 9 Aug 2021
• Batch 40: Design for Industry 2015 - 2019, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 2020
• Batch 41: Design for Industry 2016 - 2020, Hewitt, I., Parkinson, D., Wong, R., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Fenwick, H., Lievesley, M., Dylan, T. 16 Sep 2020
• Unblocking the Circular Economy, Scott-Harden, S., English, S., Skanda, A., Schurg, L., Elleke, K., Morison, B. 2 Nov 2020, Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 1: Change, Voices, Open., Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University Press
• A Landscape of Design: Design for Industry 2016, Hewitt, I., O'Leary, D., Parkinson, D., Forsyth, A., Scott-Harden, S., Warwick, L., Wong, R., Smith, N., Young, R. 4 May 2018

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• KTP 3-D printed Models, Hackney, P. (Principal Investigator), Scott-Harden, S. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/12/21 - 31/03/24, £195,944.00
• RELAY: Fire Team Communications Equipment, Lievesley, M. (Principal Investigator), Scott-Harden, S. (Co Investigator), Draeger Safety UK Limited, 16/01/17 - 01/03/17, £10,400.00

• Computer Aided Engineering MSc July 31 2000
• Engineering BEng (Hons) July 31 1997
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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• The Flipflopi Project
• ZELOcreative
• Grow Sow Simple
• Surfaceskins