https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-6229
I have circa 30 years experience as a researcher, both as principal and co-investigator, working across institutions and within interdisciplinary teams, focussing on ageing, health and care. These teams have included expertise in biomedical engineer, infection prevention, end-of-life care, dementia, spinal cord injury, software engineering, veterinary science, nutrition and dietetics, infection control and microbiology. In much of this work, end-users such as community groups and patients are supported as part of the larger team. This research has been supported by competitive grants from UKRI, NIHR and charitable trusts.
Awarded a personal professorship in 2000 by the University of Glasgow for academic leadership and research at GSA.
Winner ‘Best Research’ category in the inaugural 2018 AHRC/Wellcome Health Humanities Awards.
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches requires mutual respect for the different approaches, methods, forms of engagement and evidence within different epistemologies, all of which may be required when tackling complex issues.
MOSAEC (Mobilising Scotland’s Assets in equitable ways for Epidemic Control). UKRI Epidemic Preparedness call. Ref: APP32101. £95,879. Co-I. 2024-25
PEOPLE: develoPing and Evaluating multi-faceted evidence-based interventions to prOmote Prudent antimicrobiaL use in community contExts. UKRI Transdisciplinary AMR Network grant. £649,620. Co-I. 2024-28
VIPVis (Veterinary Infection Prevention through Visualisation), AHRC Follow-on grant. Ref: AH/V001795/1. £99,477. PI. 2021
DA-VINCI: Developing a visual identification method for people with cognitive impairment in institutional settings. Co-I. 2019-22
Ultrasonic Glasgow. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Arts and Humanities Small Grant. Ref: 58483. £7500. PI. 2018-19
AMRSim: A Microbial Reality Simulator for Veterinary Training and Practice. AHRC AMR Theme 3b grant. Ref: AH/R002088/1. £247,994. PI. 2017-19
HAIVAIRN: Healthcare Associated Infection Visualisation and Ideation Research Network. AHRC Network grant. Ref: AH/N006429/1. £29,264. PI. 2016-17
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. NIHR HS&DR - 13/114/95. £683,505. Co-I. 2016-19
VisionOn: The design and evaluation of a dynamic visualisation tool for use in staff training for the prevention of healthcare associated infections. AHRC Follow-on Fund. Ref: AH/M00628X/1. £73K. PI. 2015-16
SEED: Supporting Excellence in End of life care in Dementia. NIHR Programme Grant. Ref: NIHR RP-PG-0611-20005. £1,927,020. Co-I. 2013-18
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 Grant. Ref: RES-354-25-0001. £1,351,764. Co-I. 2008-11
envisage: promoting physical independence by involving users in rehabilitation through dynamic visualisation of biomechanical data. MRC Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Grant. Ref: GO900583. £1,486,463. Co-I 2010-13
envision: innovation in envisioning dynamic biomechanical data to inform healthcare and design guidelines and strategy. ESRC New Dynamics of Ageing Programme. Ref: RES-352-25-0005. £130,000. PI. 2007-09
design+rehab: the use of design approaches to assist spinal cord injuries patients in daily living by using structured design approaches to tackle ‘wicked problems’. Research conducted jointly with the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit in Glasgow, forming part of a larger nationwide project supported by the Royal Society of Arts and the Sylvia Adams Trust. £5,000. PI. 2011-12
age + japan: a number of small grants supporting research over 11 years into Inclusive approaches to healthcare provision for ageing and disabled populations. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (GBSF) Homes for an ageing population (2014, £1K): GBSF Butterfield Award, a 3-year programme for research exchange (2007-10, £12K). Japan Foundation Research Fellowship (2004, £10K), Royal Academy of Engineering, Global Research Award (2004, £1K), Japan. PI. 2004-14
vis-invis: visualising the invisible: developing innovative approaches to visualisation to help NHS staff prevent and control healthcare associated infections. AHRC/SFC, A Healthier Scotland initiative. Ref: HR 09032. £99,391. Co-I. 2011-12
ideal states: engaging patients in healthcare pathways through design methodologies. AHRC / EPSRC Designing for the C21st initiative. £50,000. PI. 2005
inclusiveCAD: Integration of biomechanical and psychological parameters of functional performance of older adults into a new CAD package for inclusive design. EPSRC EQUAL (Extending QUAlity of Life) initiative. Ref: GR/R26856/01. £390,000. Co-I. 2002-05
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches for ageing, health and care-related research for thesis-based PhDs.
Jing Li: Hybrid Interventions for Loneliness Reduction in the Elderly.
Shuzhong Wang: Narrative Approaches to Community Health Services for the Elderly.
Ailsa Morrant: Sensing Through Jewelleryness.
Sondos M Rawas: An Ethnographic Approach to a Design-led Enquiry into Cross Cultural Inhabitation (Completed 2021).
Gemma Wheeler: Reconciling traditional healthcare-related and design-based approaches to explore and enhance patient participation in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit, Glasgow. (Completed 2018).
Gayle Rice: Developing an interdisciplinary approach to design for, and evidence, the outcomes of young people and leaving care workers' experiences of conversations about leaving care. PhD candidate. (completed 2016)
Sandra Neves: Enjoy your meal: design tools and strategies to improve the post-stroke mealtime experience in rehabilitation. PhD candidate. (Completed 2014).
Ji-Wei Wu: Improving the understanding of the innate abilities and coping strategies of visually impaired people (VIP): an analysis and modelling of the variables and their spatial navigational abilities. PhD candidate. (Completed 2014).
Andy McDonald: Craft customisation: an investigation into the use of generative systems and physical interfaces to develop co-design experiences that enhance the value of digitally printed textile products. PhD. (Completed 2013)
David Loudon: Towards a design tool for visualizing the functional demand placed on older adults by everyday living tasks. PhD. (Completed 2010).
Chris Lim: Age and generation effects: handling complex user interfaces and implications for inclusive design. PhD. (Completed 2008).
I have taught in further education and at all levels in higher education including first year general, bachelor, integrated masters, and post-graduate taught masters courses. I was lecturer / senior lecturer in GSA's Product Design Engineering joint BEng/MEng programme with Glasgow University for 7 years before becoming its GSA Head of Department from 1996 to 2006. I have held external examiner posts at: University of Dundee, Royal College of Art, Loughborough University, and Sheffield Hallam University. As visiting professor, I have also taught and delivered workshops, to students and professionals in Japan, Singapore, Holland, Slovakia, Germany, Tasmania and Italy.
