Catherine McDermott is a Professor of Design at Kingston University in London, England. Kingston University is a University in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
In 2001, McDermott set up a Masters programme titled "Curating Contemporary Design" with Paul Thompson, then Director of the Design Museum in London and now Director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. The Design Museum is a Museum by the River Thames near Tower Bridge in central London, England. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States ' National museum of design history and contemporary Much of McDermott's personal research has focused on curating British design identity. She is the author of books and articles on design history. Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts