This workshop, part of the Crossover programme funded by the Biochemical Society and the RSE Young Academy of Scotland, brought together a broad range of academic and disciplinary expertise and interests to explore new ways of seeing and understanding people’s experiences living with and working with invisible illnesses.

It partnered with the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), recruiting academic members interested in developing patient-centred collaborations in response to the challenges of intangible health conditions. This initial group of YAS members identified challenge contexts they wished to explore based on their areas of research, which were then used to recruit further expertise from medical sciences, primary care and design to develop ideas through design activities.