Joan I. Dickinson, Professor of Interior Design and Coordinator of the MFA in Design
Thinking at Radford University, holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in interior
design from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Dickinson is NCIDQ
certified and practiced professionally for over 10 years. With over 50 presentations,
Dr. Dickinson’s research has been published and presented both nationally and internationally
with recent presentations in Rome and Barcelona. Dickinson has been professionally
involved in the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) and Journal of Interior Design
(JID) serving as a Director for JID and currently as the Director of Scholarship for
IDEC.world.
Research and Creative Interests
Dickinson's research interests include healthcare design, design for the homeless
and poor, and attitudes toward research.