design-led research, participative co-design, ageing, health and care-related research, intervention co-development, iterative prototyping
SENIOR RESEARCHER SCHOOL OF DESIGN
How can users, as 'experts' of their own experience, become central to the design process?
This question has pervaded my research and teaching, and is one which I have explored broadly within the field of healthcare for many years.
My research operates at the interface between design, health and care practice, and people’s experience of products and services, using both evidence-based and speculative approaches, as either principal- and co-investigator within multidisciplinary research teams, integrating design approaches into the overarching research methodologies.
Adopting participative co-design and advocating the use of mixed methods to develop, iteratively prototype and evaluate healthcare interventions within, e.g., stroke rehabilitation, ageimore...
SENIOR RESEARCHER SCHOOL OF DESIGN
How can users, as 'experts' of their own experience, become central to the design process?
This question has pervaded my research and teaching, and is one which I have explored broadly within the field of healthcare for many years.
My research operates at the interface between design, health and care practice, and people’s experience of products and services, using both evidence-based and speculative approaches, as either principal- and co-investigator within multidisciplinary research teams, integrating design approaches into the overarching research methodologies.
Adopting participative co-design and advocating the use of mixed methods to develop, iteratively prototype and evaluate healthcare interventions within, e.g., stroke rehabilitation, ageing, nutrition monitoring and management, end-of-life care, and infection prevention and control. My work is funded through competitive bids to UKRI, NHS and charitable trusts.
I was winner of the 'Best Research' category of the inaugural 2018 AHRC / Wellcome Health Humanities Medal Awards, named in 2017 as a Key Change Maker and Thought Leader in the British Council’s Design for Disability and an Ageing Society a Review of the State of Play in the UK (UsCreates), was winner - jointly with Dr David Loudon – of the Nexxus Life Sciences Award (West) 2011 for Innovation, and in 2004 received a Japan Foundation Research Fellowship for a Japan-based study Inclusive design and technologies in Japan, (a study which ran with support from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation until 2014).
CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS
AMRSim: A Microbial Reality Simulator for Veterinary Training and Practice: AHRC AMR Theme 3b grant. PI. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR002088%2F1
CREATE: Collaborative Rehabilitation Environments in Acute sTrokE: using co-production to improve patient carer and staff experiences in health care organizations: a multi-centre, mixed methods evaluation in inpatient stroke units. https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hsdr/1311495/#/
Da VINCI: Developing a visual identification method for people with cognitive impairment in institutional settings. https://www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research-projects/davinci/
SELECTED PREVIOUS GRANTS
mappmal: multidisciplinary approach to develop a prototype for the prevention of malnutrition in older people: products, people, places and procedures ESRC New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (2008-2011). Co-I: https://vimeo.com/35915591
envisage: a means to promote independence by involving users in their physical rehabilitation through the use of visualisation methods. MRC’s Lifelong Health and Wellbeing programme. Co-I. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21266301
OUTPUTS
Radar: http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/view/creators/197.html
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-6229
PEDAGOGY / ACADEMIC PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT / TRAINING
I am a product designer by training and part of the founding team for GSA’s award-winning MEng/BEng Product Design Engineering (PDE) programme; I was lecturer then senior lecturer in the PDE department from 1989 before becoming its Head of Department from 1996-2006. In 1995-1996 I helped establish the PDE programme at The Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, based on the Glasgow PDE model and have advised a number of other institutions developing similar programmes, including Groningen in the Netherlands, Kingston and Dundee universities. I have designed and delivered specialist intensive programmes and workshops for e.g., an annual series of inclusive design courses for the Ritsumeikan University, Japan, an inclusive design workshop for the Building and Construction Authority Academy, Singapore; and design courses and workshops for the Groningen Hanzehogeschule Faculteit Techniek; and the Fachhochschule Trier, Germany. I have been external examiner for academic design programmes at both undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Dundee, the Royal College of Art, Loughborough University, and Sheffield Hallam University.
ADVISORY
I have been an advisor to the UK’s Royal College of Art, The Royal Society of Arts, the Design Council; and the Policy Planning and Architecture Division of The Scottish Government.
STUDY TOURS
2007-2010: Inclusive approaches to healthcare provision for ageing and disabled populations (Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Butterfield Award)
2004: Japanese Inclusive Design (Japan Foundation Research Fellowship)
1993: German product design programmes (ERASMUS award)
1991: Netherlands Design (Scottish Development Agency award)
1990: US and Canadian industrial design programmes (Fraser Foundation award)
1990: Czechoslovak Design (British Council award)
CURATION
I have also recently embarked on curation, exploring the historical contribution made in Glasgow to the development of medical obstetrics ultrasound in the Ultrasonic Glasgow exhibition (2019) and associated publications.
http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/7256/
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https://vimeo.com/303013461
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