FACULTY BIO

Dr Fatema Qaed has a broad multidisciplinary background, with an MA in design and a PhD in learning and space design. Fatema's research on virtual reality exhibitions gave her a distinguished degree. Her tool (Classroom Design Recipes) transformed teachers’ understanding and use of interior design to support the repurposing of available space and resources and thus gives back control to teachers and learners through redesign using the convivial tool concept. Fatema Qaed is an expert in design thinking, interior design, learning space, participatory design, convivial tools, virtual reality exhibitions, social media, education and learning theories. She has been working at the University of Bahrain since 2010.