This poster presentation, represented as a saga, shares the results from a one year pilot project at a Swedish University. The aspiration for the ”Grounded Scholar” project was to create a space for teaching staff (adjuncts) without a PhD to enhance their scholarship capacity. The programme – a combination of workshops and mentoring – was based on a negotiated curriculum model and has so far resulted in six national and international conference presentations, two articles and one book chapter based on the adjuncts scholarly work, with special focus student diversity. The collaborative design of the program seems to be pivotal to the success. Furthermore, the adjuncts have developed their selfefficacy in terms of working in a scholarly way. The project has also opened a door to the international community of scholarship and teaching and learning. Still, the challenge of establishing a scholarly discourse at the university – a matter of both culture and structure – remains.

Publiceras i samband med den första utexamineringen från kandidatprogrammet Design & Visuell Kommunikation på Malmö högskola. Boken innehåller artiklar om designforskning såväl som personliga presentationer av programmets studenter och deras examensarbeten eller portfolios. Boken definierar vad Design & Visuell Kommunikation står för i studenternas mening.

- Innehållsförteckning: Peter Ullmark Design, forskning och designforskning Ylva Gislén & Åsa Harvard Design som gör skillnad: i skärningsfältet mellan genus och design Staffan Schmidt En skiktad K3-kartografi Maria Hellström Reimer Handlingsutrymmen Åsa Harvard & Christel Brost Design och visuell kommunikation: historien om ett utbildningsprogram Krister Bladh Teori och praktik Afred Gunnarsson Med en fot i verkligheten Studentpresentationer: Anders Algestam Anton Andersson Tina Azad Krister Bladh Fredrik Carlsson Lovisa Carlsson Frida Enebro Anna Goffe Alfred Gunnarsson Johannes Hansen Caroline Jönsson Jessica Larsson Lisa Luckman Amelie Nilsson Elin Nilsson Astrid Sterngren Matilda Svensson Therese Wendt

Published on the occasion of the first graduation from the Design & Visual Communication bachelors degree at Malmö University. The book contains articles on design research by some of Sweden's leading scholars, as well presentations of the individual students and their final projects or portfolios. This book is the students' definition of what Design & Visual Communication means.