Philip Ely
BA(Hons) Media & Design (University of Portsmouth), PGCert in Teaching & Learning in Professional & Higher Education (Institute of Education, University of London), Associate Dean (Business & Community), University for the Creative Arts, FRSA
Philip is a Doctoral Researcher at DWRC, whose ethnographic research ‘The Problem of Digital-DIY: Setting-up and (re)configuring home entertainment and information & communication technologies during life-change’ is sponsored by the University for the Creative Arts. The research looks at how people engage in digital-DIY practice (the language, knowledge and skills, physicality and ideologies of engaging with home entertainment technology) and what constitutes a digital-DIY ecology. Drawing upon previous research in science and technology studies, HCI and the social sciences, the research has implications for designers of new products and services.
In his role as Associate Dean and Head of the Business & Community School at University for the Creative Arts (based at Epsom and Farnham), Philip supports ‘ArtsHE’ engagement with businesses in the creative industries, helps creative entrepreneurs realise their business ambitions (for instance through use of NESTA Creative Enterprise Toolkit and incubation advice & guidance) and teaches on the MA Design, Innovation & Brand Management course. He is the Chair of UCA’s Graduate Employability & Entrepreneurship Group and a member of the UCA Research & Enterprise and Learning, Teaching & Assessment Committees respectively. He is founder member of the Home Interaction Research cluster at UCA. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).
Prior to his move into Higher Education in 2002, Philip has spent over 15 years in the interactive, music, design and music industries, and involved with a number of start-up companies. These include Director of Digital Media at branding consultancy Design Bridge, Controller of Interactive Design at Granada Media and Creative Director of Digital Marketing at Telstar Entertainment Group. He is a trained graphic designer, and in his formative years worked at international corporate design and typographic specialists Total Design, Amsterdam and as an exhibition designer for ‘The Spirit of the Letter’ national touring exhibition on behalf of the Crafts Council & Portsmouth City Museums.
p.ely@surrey.ac.uk | pely@ucreative.ac.uk | LinkedIn
Publications
Ely, P., Frohlich, D., & Green, N. (forthcoming 2011) Uncertainty, Upheavals and Upgrades: Digital-DIY During Life-Change in New Media Technologies and User Empowerment (Eds. Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer and Eugène Loos) Peter Lang Publishing, Berlin.
Ely, P & White, H (2010) Collaborative Weaving: Knowledge transfer and textile innovation in Wales in Clews, D & Mallinder, S, Looking Out: Effective engagements with creative & cultural enterprise, Dept. for Culture, Media & Sport/ADM-HEA, Brighton.
Ely, P., Frohlich, D., & Green, N. (2009), Uncertainty, Upheavals & Upgrades: Home Entertainment, Information and Communication Technologies During Life-Change, Published Proceedings of the COST 298 Conference The Good, The Bad & The Challenging, European Union (COST298), Stockholm, May 2009.
Conference Presentations
Ely, P., & Mackenzie, C (2010) Faking the Evidence: Raising Our Game in the Creative Industries at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2010, NCGE/Enterprise Educators UK, Cardiff.
Ely, P., Frohlich, D., & Green, N. (2008) Digital Upheavals: Ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies, Microsoft Research: Cambridge, November 2008.
Ely, P., & Shed, R. (2007), Single Lives, Personal Spaces: Autoethnography and design for solo living at Not In The Manual Symposium, UCA Farnham, November 2007.