BOOK CHAPTERS
2019
Interplays of humanism, cognitivism and behaviourism in design engineering
Childs, P.R.N. In Design School: After Boundaries and disciplines, Rodgers, P.A., and Bremner, C., Vernon Press, pp. 67-73, 2019.
2017
Designing circular possessions
Baxter, W., and Childs, P.R.N. Chapter 26, pp. 391-404 in Chapman, J. (editor), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design, Routledge, 2017.
2015
Temperature measurement Childs, P.R.N. Chapter 7, In Kutz, M. (Editor) Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, 4th Edition, Energy and Power (Volume 4), pp. 247-284, Wiley; Volume 4 edition, 2015.
Industrial, and innovation design engineering
Childs, P.R.N., and Pennington, M. In Chakrabarti, A., and Lindemann, U. (Editors) Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice, pp. 133-149, Springer, 2015.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19449-3_9
Design as an unstructured problem: New methods to help reduce uncertainty –
A practitioner perspective
Garvey, B., and Childs, P.R.N. In Chakrabarti, A., and Lindemann, U. (Editors) Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice, pp. 133-149, Springer, 2015.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19449-3_9
Nanoscale Thermometry and Temperature Measurement
Childs, P.R.N. In Carlos, L, and Palacio, F. (Editors) Thermometry at the nanoscale. RSC Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Series, 2015.
ISBN: 978-1849739047
2013
Design Tackles and Tools
Tek-Jin Nam and Childs, P.R.N. In Tek-Jin Nam and Hall, A (Editors), Designing Social City Experiences, pp. 71-83, 2013.
Manufacture based innovation. Paradigm shifting into designing ecologies
Childs, P.R.N,, Hall, A., and Tek-Jin Nam. In Tek-Jin Nam and Hall, A (Editors), Designing Social City Experiences, pp. 85-94, 2013.
Temperature measurement
Childs, P.R.N. In Kutz, M. (Editor), Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, Wiley, 2013.
2012
Morphological analysis
Childs, P.R.N, and Brand, A. In Childs, P.R.N, Keech, D., Southgate, D. (Editors), Enabled. The Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge Story. DEG Imperial College London,
ISBN: 978-0957229808, pp. 78-81, 2012.
2010
Assessing creativity in design: emerging themes for engineering
Childs, P.R.N., In Ball, P. (Editor), People metrics, I
SBN 978-1904804833
Assessing creativity in design: emerging themes for engineering
Ethics, Childs, P.R.N., In Ball, P. (editor)
ISBN: 978-1904804833
2001
Advances in Temperature Measurement Childs, P.R.N. Advances in Heat Transfer, Vol. 36, pp 111-181, AIP, 2001.
Invited paper.