Danielle Taylor

Danielle Taylor is the Senior 3D Technologist based in the School of Technology, Business and Arts, working with students and staff from Architecture, Fine Art, Graphics, Film and other groups and individuals from across the university. Danielle oversees the operation and development of the Creative Workshops where students from throughout the school come to advance their design and making skills against the background of specialist advice and a range of creative technologies.  

She joined the University in 2009 after achieving her BA (Hons) Model Making for Media, and MA in Design Context and Practice, and has worn many hats from lecturer to technician, always with passion for effective communication through physical and digital models, plans, sculpture, and artifacts.  She has taught on BA (Hons) Fashion Communication & Promotion, BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design and BA (Hons) Interior Design.  

More recently Danielle has joined the STREAM research team based at the University’s Digitech Centre located within BT’s Adastral Park, working with Professor David Heatley to develop a new type of safe portable scanner to enable the early diagnosis of stroke patients. Her focus, the engineering of experimental rigs and the design of a field-deployable prototype.  

Alongside her academic and technical career Danielle is a working artist specialising in abstract painting, and the designer and project manager of her own house renovation.