This book is about how to be a design academic. In another words, how to manage the various challenges, requirements, and processes that come with both the everyday and extra-orginary parts of an academic role in design fields (from architecture, urban design, and other spatial design fields, to fashion, industrial, interaction and graphic design.

1. Being a Design Academic: From Beginning to Winning. Part 1: Starting Out. Section 1: Crafting Your Unique Career Path. 2. Being a Design Academic: Design Process, Practice, Thinking. 3. Industry to Academia: The Enhanced Academic. 4. A "Non-Designer" in a Design School. Section 2: Being an Effective Design Researcher. 5. Getting a PhD - "How Hard Can It Be?'. 6. The Mindset of a New Design Academic. Section 3: Being an Effective Design Educator. 7. A Guide to Design Intensives. 8. Using Video and Blended Learning. 9. Reframing Learning via Technology: COVID-19 - Hacks and Reflections. Part 2: Becoming a Leader. Section 4: Leading Yourself. 10. How to "Dare Greatly" in Academia. 11. Running the Academic Marathon: Planning and Executing as Planned. Section 5: Leading Others. 12. Research Leadership. 13. Research Co-Design: Meaningful Collaboration in Research. 14. Design Curricula: Navigating Process and People. 15. Student Engagement through Mentoring. Section 6: Leading a Group or School. 16. Building a Research Group: Urban Informatics 2006 to Now. 17. Leading a Design School: Practices from Australia and the USA.