Dr Asghar is the current deputy head of School and a multi-award winning academic, who has been building capacity within his own Design Department in Pakistan. He has set up post-graduate research programmes and instigated the first design research group in his Department, as well as working on a special task force with Regional Government in Lahore, Pakistan advising on a participatory and codesign approach to enhancing air quality in the city.
Qualifications
2017 — 2020 PhD in Design, School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA), Loughborough University, UK
"Cross-cultural Product Semantics: A comparative investigation between the UK and Pakistan into the socio-cultural meanings ascribed to digital images (a case study of manual wheelchair design)"
MFA (Graphic Design), University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan
BSc Product and Industrial Design (PID), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan.
Dr Asghar completed his PhD through SDCA in 2017 and has since co-authored four journal papers with SDCA and international colleagues around the topic of cultural blindness.
Dr Asghar leads and teaches modules across various design subjects being offered by the department (PID, UET), revision and upgradation of design curriculum, liaison between undergraduate students, staff members and university administration, creating strategies for an increased employment of students within industry.
Best Paper Award by Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) at the International conference of Ergonomics & Human Factors (EHF) 2019, held in April, at the Crowne Plaza in Stratford-upon-Avon, London, United Kingdom.
Three Erick Dickens Memorial Awards (2018,2019,2020) given by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and Packaging Society, UK, being a member of team of tutors, for outstanding contribution to the promotion of packaging design in education.
Faculty Development Program (FDP) Scholarship to pursue PhD, issued by the University of Engineering.