Tom Marriott
Tom is a designer and social researcher who uses design to understand the implications of technology
Staff details
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Tom’s work sits at the intersection of design and social research, drawing on design, sociology, and science and technology studies literatures. His recent research has involved researching the implications of technology in policing. He has shown work both in the UK, for instance at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and aboard.
His AHRC funded PhD, completed in Design the department in 2023, examined the use of body-worn video cameras by police officers in England and Wales. The project involved the design and production of research devices which were used with police officers during fieldwork as a way of facilitating and prompting conversations about the multiple roles of capturing technologies within policing.
Academic qualifications
- PhD, Department of Design, Goldsmiths University of London 2023
- MA Design Products, Royal College of Art 2015
- BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London 2012
Teaching and supervision
Tom teaches on both BA Design and MA Design Expanded Practice
Publications and research outputs
Article
- Design Things in Ethnographic Police Research Marriott, Thomas. 2024. Design Things in Ethnographic Police Research. European Journal of Policing Studies, ISSN 2034-760X
Conference or Workshop Item
- Talk and Panel Discussion: 'Excess Force': Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art Marriott, Thomas. 2023. 'Talk and Panel Discussion: 'Excess Force': Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art'. In: Excess Force. Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom 23 May 2023.
- Buttons, Bombs, Books, & Body Cameras: Taking Design Things to the Field Marriott, Thomas. 2022. 'Buttons, Bombs, Books, & Body Cameras: Taking Design Things to the Field'. In: 5th Annual Ethnographies of Crime and Control Symposium. Kings College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 19 - 20 September 2022.
- A Button as an Invitation to Do Design Marriott, Thomas. 2021. 'A Button as an Invitation to Do Design'. In: The Right to Design: Another Possible is Possible. HDK– Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 7 October 2021.
Thesis
- Design Led Criminology: An Investigation into Police Use of Body-Worn Video Cameras in England & Wales Marriott, Thomas. 2023. Design Led Criminology: An Investigation into Police Use of Body-Worn Video Cameras in England & Wales. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Conferences and talks
2023:
‘BWCs as Paradoxical Technologies’
Talk & Panel Discission at Excess Force, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art.
2022:
‘Buttons, Bombs, Books, & Body Cameras: Taking Design Things to the Field’
Conference Paper, 5th Ethnographies of Crime, Harm and Control Symposium, Kings College, University of Cambridge.
2021:
A Button as an Invitation to Do Design’
Public Talk, The Right to Design: Another Possible is Possible, HDK– Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.