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Prof. Alan Lewis

Director of PDR

UWIC Dean of Research

 

Contact

Tel: 029 2041 6778

Email: alewis@uwic.ac.uk

 

Research Interests

Innovation management

Barriers to innovation facing micro, small and medium-sized enterprises

Identifying what is design and how design decisions are made

Strategic planning, accounting and design

 

Recent Publications

Larsen, P, Lewis, A, “How Award –Winning Firms Manage The Barriers To Innovation” 12th international Product Development Management Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005, June 12-14

Larsen, P, Lewis, A, “Identifying Best Practice Integrated Design and Management Accountant Practices”, CIMA Research Executive Summary Series, 2005, 1:10, 1-8, ISSN: 1744 – 702X (Print)

Full list of publications

 

University Responsibilities

 

Research Student Supervision

PhD – Designing user interfaces for wearable technologies

PhD – Interdisciplinary Learning: Implications for Policy and Practice in Higher Education

PhD – Contextual Testing of Interactive Prototypes at the Early Stage of the Design Process

PhD – A comparative Analysis of Strategies for the Promotion of Design in different National Contexts

 

Other Activities

Academic Supervisor on KTP programmes