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Sarah has been a master’s programme leader, undergraduate progamme leader and senior lecturer within the area of interior architectural design. She has also successfully run her own space planning and energy efficient refurbishment business.
Sarah is particularly enthusiastic about design for health and wellbeing, particularly the area of healthy productive working environments. This includes creating better quality working spaces with adequate air ventilation, noise control and space, so people are happy and productive in the workplace.
She has a passion for interior design and how future generations of designers can benefit us all, by integrating what they have learnt into their design concepts. She is also a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Sarah's research interests include:
- Sustainable daylighting systems providing light into deep core office buildings and interior spaces
- Energy efficient property designing with minimal/no gas input
- Interior environments relating to issues of the health and wellbeing of occupants, particularly working environments
- The use of large areas of glazing for iconic buildings and the sustainable implications it creates
Dr Lisa trained as a commercial interior designer, specialising in exhibition and hospitality design alongside a career as a lecturer.
Her PhD, awarded by De Montfort University in 2019, investigated sketch inhibition, (a fear of drawing), among undergraduate designers across various disciplines and how it affects their design ability and professional practice once graduated.
Dr Lisa continues to develop new teaching strategies to help students overcome the fear of putting pencil to paper.
With a wide knowledge of research methodologies within creative subjects, she absolutely loves research of any kind, whether for a written project or design concept – because a design solution is only as good as the designer’s understanding of the problem.
Diana Celella is an international award-winning designer, Director of The Drawing Room Interiors, Associate Consultant Hammond Care, Dementia Choice, as well as being past President of SBID and past Chairman of the Healthcare Design Panel (HDAC).
She works in the commercial interior sector, specialising in healthcare projects, from care homes and dental practices to assisted living and retirement villages. Diana is recognised throughout the industry as an expert in implementing evidence-based design.
She has 35 years of deep industry knowledge, coupled with an analytical and detail-oriented approach. This equips Diana to understand the needs of the most discerning clients and audiences, delivering an experience rooted in customer service, integrity and expertise.
Her creative and design skills make her a keen advocate for her clients, proactively seeking out new ways to enhance her services and continually attain excellence, with client satisfaction the ultimate objective.
Diana is an Interior Design Lecturer, a position inspired by her desire to share her designing knowledge and skills, and a member of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID).