Dr Cavell Ord-Shrimpton is a design researcher, educator, and practitioner specialising in digital visual communication, design ethics, and the shifting authority of images in platform-driven and AI-mediated environments. Her work combines practice-based research with critical theory, focusing on how meaning, authorship, and responsibility are reconfigured in contemporary digital culture.
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Dr Ord-Shrimpton has over twenty years of experience across design education, academic leadership, and professional practice. She has held senior roles including Course Leader and Programme Lead, contributing to course validation, curriculum development, quality assurance, and interdisciplinary teaching across design, media, and creative technologies.
She completed her PhD at Anglia Ruskin University, where her research examined digital presentism, AI-mediated visual communication, and visual message authority through practice-based and research-through-design methodologies. Her work bridges pedagogy, critical theory, and applied design research, with a focus on ethical and responsible visual communication.
Cavell currently teaches on the following modules:
Practice-based research projects in digital visual literacy and AI-assisted design; knowledge exchange through workshops, toolkits, and public engagement activities.
Ord-Shrimpton, C. (2024) ‘Reclaiming visual authority in AI-mediated illustration’, E|C – Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici.
Ord-Shrimpton, C. (2023) ‘Relearning creativity in the digital age’, Creativepool Magazine.
Ord-Shrimpton, C. (2023) ‘Fundamentals of design that will improve your work in every dimension’, Times Higher Education Campus.