Rachel Heeley

Staffordshire University | SU · Creative Arts & Engineering

This paper aims to analyse the current NHS nursing uniform, how the uniform impacts upon the identity of the modern day nurse and how efficient the uniform is for the role required. From a design perspective the nursing uniform appears to have little consideration for aesthetics, gender, fit and comfort with practicality, cost and a universal “one-...

Increasingly design education is taking place within a Krauss-ion ‘expanded field’ of cross disciplinary practice. This explorative nature of design, when set against notions of traditional disciplines, will ask graduates to participate with certainty and confidence in this ‘expanded field’. We argue that developing disciplinary identity, when rein...