Dr Rebecca Anne Price
Senior Lecturer
University Teaching Qualifications Diploma | 2020-2023
TU Delft and the 4TU Dutch Network. Modules on Supervision, Teaching, Assessment, Developing Education.
Doctor of Philosophy (Design) | 2013-2016
Queensland University of Technology (2013-2016) – Thesis title: Implementing Design-led Innovation within an Australian Airport Corporation. Nominated for an Australian postgraduate award for outstanding thesis.
Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Hons) | 2009-2012
Queensland University of Technology Minors in Art History and Design and People-Environment Interactions. Graduated as Infinity Design Award Winner for Most Outstanding Graduate.
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Built Environment
Dr Rebecca Price is an Australian design researcher, educator, and academic leader with over a decade of experience working across Europe and Australia. Rebecca is recognised as a leading voice in resilience and wellbeing in design, exploring how designers and students can develop the confidence, adaptability, and self-awareness needed to thrive in demanding and rapidly changing environments. Her work brings together wellbeing, creativity, and professional capability, with a strong focus on creating more supportive and sustainable approaches to design education and practice. This commitment is reflected in The Resilient Designer’s Handbook, multiple awards for teaching excellence, and her leadership of funded educational initiatives that advance innovative and student-centred pedagogies.
She holds a PhD in Design from Queensland University of Technology, where her research examined the implementation of design-led innovation within an Australian airport corporation. Following this, she relocated to the Netherlands and spent approximately 10 years at Delft University of Technology. There, she progressed from Postdoctoral Research Fellow to Assistant Professor and Master’s Programme Director of Strategic Product Design, while also contributing to faculty leadership, doctoral mentoring, and interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Dr Price has developed a strong international research profile, publishing extensively in leading journals including Design Issues, She Ji, and Studies in Higher Education. Her work spans design innovation, human-centred and systemic design, and the emerging field of designer resilience. Her book, The Resilient Designer’s Handbook, has been widely adopted by students and practitioners and reflects her leadership in integrating wellbeing and capability development within design education.
She has secured over AUD $2 million in competitive research funding as lead investigator, including major grants such as a €800,000 (approx. AUD $1.3M) ClickNL project, a €200,000 (approx. AUD $330K) Roffa Lab initiative on resilient urban systems, and a €100,000 (approx. AUD $165K) Senior Comenius Fellowship focused on forging designer resilience. Additional funding includes national and European grants, education innovation funding, and industry collaborations, demonstrating her ability to attract and lead impactful, interdisciplinary research.
An award-winning educator, Dr Price has received multiple “Most Inspiring Teacher” awards across consecutive years, alongside faculty-level recognition and nomination for university-wide teaching excellence. She has supervised multiple PhD candidates to completion and contributes actively to academic service through international reviewing, invited keynotes, and conference leadership.
Dr Price’s work is defined by a commitment to advancing design as a transformative, future-oriented discipline capable of addressing the complex challenges of contemporary society.
E-mail
Location
Anita B. Lawrence Centre (H13) - Room 2014
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
2025_TU Delft and 4TU Education Fellowship 50,000 €
Educating Resilient Engineers
Lead: Rebecca Price
2025_Erasmus+ Mobility Grant 5,000 €
Awarded to fund teaching a Summer School on Designing Dialogues for Peaceful Ecosystems, in collaboration with Politecnico Di Milano and Aalto University.
Lead: Rebecca Price
2024_ TU Delft Education Stimulation Grant 20,000 €
Cultivating Resilience in TU Delft Learning Environments.
Lead: Rebecca Price
2022-2024_ Roffa Lab 200,000€
Funded by the Convergence Rotterdam Programme under the theme: Resilient Delta.
Link to Website
Lead: Rebecca Price and Rene van der Velde
2021-2023_ NRO grant– 100,000€:
Senior Comenius Fellow – “Forging Designer Resilience” Link to Website
Lead: Rebecca Price
2021-2024_ ClickNL grant: “I.Tree NL 2.0” – 800 000€
ClickNL In collaboration with the TU Architecture Faculty and 29 other consortium members. Dashboard Outcome Website Link – Report
Lead: Rebecca Price and Rene van der Velde
2019-2020_ NWO Creative Industries Grant (Approved) Funding 18,000€.
In collaboration with the Netherlands Red Cross on the topic: “Urban Heatwaves.” Report
Lead: Rebecca Price
2025_Awarded Most Inspiring Teaching in Strategic Product Design - Delft University of Technology
2023_ Awarded Most Inspiring Teacher in Strategic Product Design - Delft University of Technology
2021_ Awarded Most Inspiring Teacher in Strategic Product Design - Delft University of Technology
2020_ Awarded Most Inspiring Teacher in Strategic Product Design - Delft University of Technology
2019_ Awarded Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering’s Most Inspiring Teacher 2019.
Nominated for best Teacher across entire Delft University of Technology
2018_ Awarded Best Conference Paper
Baha, E., Dawdy, G., Sturkenboom, N., Price, R., & Snelders, D. (2018). Good Design-Driven Innovation. Paper presented at the DRS 2018 Catalyst. Limerick, IRE.
2017_ Awarded Best Track Reviewer
For the track Innovation and Design at the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference, 2017. RMIT Melbourne.
2016_Nominated for an Australian Postgraduate award for outstanding PhD thesis. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
2012_Graduated as Infinity Design Award Winner for Most Outstanding Graduate. - Queensland University of Technology
Journals:
Kortenbach, T., Gonçalves, M., Price, R., Wang, P. (2025) The relation between humans and LLMs in the creative act. Journal of Creativity, 36 (Article 100114).
Samenjo, K. T., Ramanathan, A., Gwer, S. O., Bailey, R. C., Otieno, F. O., Koksal, E., Sprecher, B., Price, R. A., Bakker, C., & Diehl, J. C. (2023). Design of a syringe extension device (Chloe SED®) for low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa: a circular economy approach. In Frontiers in Medical Technology, 5. Frontiers Media SA.
Price, R.A. (2022). A Review of Resilience in Higher Education: Toward the Emerging Concept of Designer Resilience. Studies in Higher Education, 48 (1) 83-99. doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.211202
Price, R., & Bijl-Brouwer, M (2021). What Motivates our Design Students during Covid-19 You? Journal of Design, Business & Society, 7 (2), 235-251.
Price, R.A. (2021). Forging Resilient Designers: An Educator’s Perspective. Design Management Review 32 (2), 50-54.
Bijl-Brouwer, M., & Price, R.A. (2021). An adaptive and strategic human-centred design approach to shaping pandemic design education that promotes wellbeing. Strategic Design Research Journal 14 (1), 102-113.
Stoimenova, N., & Price, R.A. (2020). Exploring the Nuances of Designing (with/for) Artificial Intelligence Design Issues. 36 (4), 45-55.
Price, R.A, De Lille, C, & Bergema, K. (2019). Advancing Industry through Design; A Longitudinal Case Study with the Aviation Industry. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 5 (4), 304-326.
Klitsie, B., Price, R.A, De Lille, C. (2019). Designing Organisational Infrastructure. Design Management Journal, 4 (1), 28-41.
Price, R., Matthews, J., & Wrigley, C. (2018). Three Narrative Techniques for Engagement and Action in Design-Led Innovation. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 4 (2), 186-201.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., & Matthews, J. (2018) Action researcher to design innovation catalyst: Building design capability from within. Action Research Journal, 66 (1). doi.org/10.1177/1476750318781221
Price, R., & Kleinsmann, M. (2018). Strategic design practices in digital innovation: Findings from strategic design projects with industry. Journal of Design, Business & Society, 4 (1), 99–116.
Price, R., & Straker, K. (2017). The design movement: Two case studies from the edge of the discipline. The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), S4565–S4574
Price, R., & Wrigley, C. (2016). Design and a Deep Customer Insight Approach to Innovation. Journal of International Consumer Marketing, 28 (2), 92-105.
Price, R., Straker, K., & Wrigley, C. (2014). Not just what they want, but why they want it: Traditional market research to deep customer insights. Journal of Qualitative Market Research, 18 (2), 230-248.
Conference papers:
Brinkman, G., Celik, S., de Koning, J. I. J. C., Diehl, J. C., Goss, H., Komlóssy, T., Mazerant, E. B., Merkus, P. L. J., Özçelik, A., Ozkaramanli, D., Peeters, A. L., Price, R. A., Sleeswijk Visser, F., Tschavgova, E., van Arkel, T., van Dam, S. S., Weber, M. M., Wennekers, E. M. & Westerhof, S. A. (2025). Practicing Systemic Design: Insights from the Delft Systemic. In Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD14, October, Toronto.
Sangiorgi, D., Čaić, M., Götzen, A., Price, R., Caba, N., Vink, J., Neuhoff, R., & Ali, H. (2025). Mental Health and Wellbeing Practices in Design Education: A Call for Action. Service Design and Innovation Conference 2025. IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, India, October 6-8, 2025.
Price, R., (2024). ‘Imposter Designer’: Setbacks and Self-Doubts on the journey to becoming a practitioner. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, EPDE 2024. 26th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. The Design Society. Birmingham, UK.
Price, R.A. & Bijl-Brouwer, M. (2023). Educating Resilient and Well Designers. In Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Elisava, 7-8 September. doi.org/10.35199/EPDE.2023.88
Berg, M van., Bilj-Brouwer, M. van. & Price, R. A. (2022). A community-based learning program to improve wellbeing and design student success. In Proceedings of DRS2022 – Bilbao, Spain. Design Research Society.
Klitsie, B.J., Price, R. A., & Santema, S. (2021). Not Invented Here: Organizational misalignment as a barrier to innovation implementation in service organisations. In Proceedings of ServDes.2020 – Tensions, Paradoxes, Plurality RMIT University, Melbourne Australia.
Sturkenboom, N., Baha, E., Price, R. A., Kleinsmann, M., & Snelders, D. (2019). A CHAT Approach to Understand Framing in Digital Service Innovation. In the Proceedings of ICED19. Delft, NL: Delft University of Technology.
Holierhoek, S., & Price, R. A. (2019). Design in Policy Making: A Wicked Problems Perspective. In Proceedings of Academy for Design Innovation Management. London, UK: Loughborough University.
Klitsie, B., Price, R. A., & De Lille, C. (2019). Exploring the Fourth Order: Designing Organisational Infrastructure. In Proceedings of Academy for Design Innovation Management. London, UK: Loughborough University.
Price, R. A. (2019). In Pursuit of Design-led Transitions. In Proceedings of Academy for Design Innovation Management. London, UK: Loughborough University.
Waring, J., Price, R. A., & Waring, C. (2019). Business Empathy: A Systems Thinking Perspective. In Proceedings of Academy for Design Innovation Management. London, UK: Loughborough University.
Van Rijn, R., Esch, P., Price, R. A., Oonk, M., & Netten, M. (2018). U and I: Insights from a University-Industry Design Collaboration. Paper presented at the 21st DMI: Academic Design Management Conference. London, UK.
Klitsie, K., Price, R. A., & De Lille, C. (2018). Overcoming the Valley of Death: A Design Innovation Perspective. Paper presented at the 21st DMI: Academic Design Management Conference. London, UK.
Bastiaansen, S., Price, R. A., & Machielsen, T. (2018). Developing Design Capability in a Dutch Software Firm: Rapid Growth as a Challenge. Paper presented at the 21st DMI: Academic Design Management Conference. London, UK.
Bastiaansen, S., Price, R. A., Govers, P., & Machielsen, T. (2018). Design capability in a software SME: Report from an embedded design innovation catalyst. Paper presented at the DRS 2018 Catalyst. Limerick, IRE.
Baha, E., Dawdy, G., Sturkenboom, N., Price, R., & Snelders, D. (2018). Good Design-Driven Innovation. Paper presented at the DRS 2018 Catalyst. Limerick, IRE. *Awarded best paper*
Klitsie, B., Price, R., & De Lille, C. (2018). Using Dynamic Capabilities in an actionable tool as a vehicle to initiate design-driven innovation. Paper presented at the DRS 2018 Catalyst. Limerick, IRE
Yuan, M., Price, R., Erp, J. V., & Socha, J. (2018). Designing with meaningful data: Deep personalisation in the air travel context. Paper presented at the DRS 2018 Catalyst. Limerick, IRE.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., & Matthews, J. H. (2017). Design-led innovation and sensemaking: Opportunities to connect. Paper presented at Academy for Design Innovation Management. Hong Kong, HK.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., Matthews, J. H., & Dreiling, A. (2014). A digital airport experience: design-led innovation in support of airport strategy. Paper presented at the Proceedings of 19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference. London, UK.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., Matthews, J. H., & Dreiling, A. (2014). Design research for the real world: a design-led innovation model for action research. Paper presented at the 10th International NORD Design Conference. Helsinki, FIN.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., Dreiling, A., & Bucolo, S. (2013). Design led innovation: shifting from smart follower to digital strategy leader in the Australian airport sector. Paper presented at the Design Management Symposium (TIDMS), 2013 IEEE Tsinghua International. Shenzhen, China.
Price, R., Wrigley, C., Bucolo, S., & Dreiling, A. (2013). A design led innovation approach to gathering deep customer insights in the aviation industry. Consilience and Innovation in Design Proceedings and Program vol. 1, 2195-2205, Tokyo, Japan.
Book Chapters:
Shah, J., de Koning, J. & Price, R.A. (2023). From Gas to Green: Designing a Social Contagion Strategy for the Energy Transition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands In Straker, K & and Wrigley, C (Ed). Handbook of Design Thinking: Multiple Perspectives, University of Queensland Press.
Price, R.A., & Lloyd, P. (2022). Asking effective questions: awareness of bias in designerly thinking. In Maier, A., Oehmen, J and Vermaas, P.E (Ed.) Handbook of Engineering Systems Design. DTU Management Engineering. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-46054-9_24-1
Price, R., Wrigley, C., & Dreiling, A. (2015). Are you on board? The role of design-led innovation in strengthening key partnerships within an Australian airport. In Muratovski, Gjoko (Ed.) Design for Business. University of Chicago Press/Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 42-61.
Technical Reports:
[Technical Report] i.Tree 2.0 NL Next-generation metrics and methodologies for urban forestry and climate resilience in Dutch cities: HERE
[Technical Report] Initiating a Multi-Party Collaboration for Adaption and Resilience to Urban Heatwaves: HERE
[Technical Report in Dutch] BOS op POTEN (Walking Trees): HERE