Professor Jayne Wallace

Professor

School: Design, Arts and Creative Industries

As Professor of Craft and Wellbeing in the School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries my work is situated at the intersection of craft, HCI and care. My research investigates both how material artefacts such as digital jewellery or objects of ongoingness and creative practice such as pottery making have the potential to support personhood and sense of self across a range of complex human contexts including dementia, bereavement and mental health. My work seeks to support emotional continuity and relational connection between people without reproducing the past or treating remembrance literally. Instead, dialogical newness is used to create a grounded approach in designing intimate, meaningful interactions that preserve personal histories and support enduring connections.

I am a co-investigator on Northumbria University’s UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) where I deliver design research methods teaching to the PhD candidate cohorts, as part of the (incredible) Converge Northumbria project team I help deliver free educational campus-based courses and opportunities to those 18+ in the community who have or are experiencing challenges associated with mental health. I am editor for the Taylor and Francis journal Design for Health alongside Prof Claire Craig and Prof Paul Chamberlain, also co-founder of the Research Through Design conference series with Prof Joyce Yee and co-founder and co-editer of the Journal of Jewellery Research with Dr Roberta Bernabei 2017 - 2025.

You can find out more about my work from my personal website

PhD completions:

Claire Baker – Northumbria University (2024) Design. Principal Supervisor

Clair Aldington - Northumbria University (2022) Design. Principal Supervisor

Jill Bewster - Northumbria University (2022) Design. Second Supervisor

Erica Vannucci - Northumbria University (2021) Design. Second Supervisor

Konstantia Koulidou - Northumbria University (2019) Design. Principal Supervisor

Philip Luscombe - Northumbria University (2018) Design. Principal Supervisor

Thomas Dylan - Northumbria University (2018) Design. Principal Supervisor

Enrique Encinas - Northumbria University (2018) Design. Second Supervisor

Michael Shorter - University of Dundee (2016) Design. Second Supervisor

Anja Thieme- Newcastle University (2015) HCI. Supervision Team

Lizette Reitsma - Northumbria University (2014) Design. Supervision Team

Jonathan Hook - Newcastle University (2013) HCI. Supervision Team

Stephen Lindsay – Newcastle University (2012) HCI Supervision Team

Campus Address

204a, CCE2, Design School
Northumbria University,
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Email Jayne

Key Publications

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AI and the Self: Exploring Identity, Agency, and Relational Personhood, McCerery, A., Wallace, J., Gaver, W., Montague, K., Odom, W., Barnett, S., Toombs, A., Thieme, A., Craig, C., Guerreiro, T. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
A Place of Potentiality: Finding New Forms of Dialogue in Grief through Creativity, Wallace, J. 29 Jun 2026, Creative and Aesthetic Ways of Grief, New York, United States, Taylor & Francis
From Remote Space to Remote Time, Ishii, H., Youn, H., Li, J., Xiao, X., Ch'Ng, E., Brubaker, J., Wallace, J., Pataranutaporn, P. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
The CHIndness of Strangers: Exploring Reciprocity and Pro-Social Action, Briggs, P., Wallace, J., Bowman, R., Montague, K., Craig, C., Toombs, A. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Centring: Co-Creative Ceramics in the Living Museum, Wallace, J., Collingham, H., Kindleysides, M., Marston, B., Appleby, C. 12 Mar 2025, DementiaLab Conference 2025
Clay Connections, Wallace, J., Bowman, R., Briggs, P. 12 Dec 2025
Editorial, Wallace, J. 18 Aug 2025, In: Design for Health
pegBits: Experimenting with a 0.1" system for open hardware prototyping, Rogers, J., Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Metcalfe, T., Taylor, N., Raj, R., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P. 4 Mar 2025, TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, New York, NY, United States, ACM
A Craft Ethos: hiCraft, Marshall, J., Wallace, J., Rogers, J., Verkerk, J., Heslop, P., Kisby, E. 20 Oct 2024
Dovetails: Personhood, Citizenship, and Craft between Children and Older Adults, Collingham, H., Wallace, J., Brewster, J., Whittingham, R., Prost, S., Marshall, J., Kindleysides, M., Benson, W. 2024, In: Design for Health

Professional Activity

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Editorial work: Design for Health (Journal) 2025
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Create your own ‘Healthy Internet’ badge workshop 2024
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Internet ‘care’ label workshop 2024
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Entangled Threads workshop 2024
Editorial work: Journal of Jewellery Research (Journal) 2018

PGR Supervision

Amy McCerery AI and Society Related Challenges – Health and Wellbeing Start Date: 29/09/2025 End Date: 28/09/2026
Victoria Owen Designing with Dementia: Supporting Ongoingness Through Bespoke AI Technologies Start Date: 06/10/2026
Ann Kirkbride Old Start Date: 30/05/2022 End Date: 07/11/2025
Claire Baker Making Relationships: The Value of Dialogical Practice with a Lost Community in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 07/08/2025
Babitha George Making Meaning Together Start Date: 10/07/2026
Ann Kirkbride Old Start Date: 30/05/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025