Tag: Lab4Living

Lab4Living welcomes visitors from Zurich’s University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

This week Lab4Living welcomed Aisha Tawahni, Daniel Schuler, Aline Rueede and Evelyn Stainhauser, four occupational therapy students from Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland who are interested in learning more about design and occupational therapy. They were joined by Sheffield Hallam occupational therapy student Connie Kendall who is currently completing her ‘extended scope’ placement at Lab4Living. Over the week the […]

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Lab4Living hosts Creative Practices in Knowledge Mobilisation conference

Lab4Living is proud to be hosting a 2 day international workshop exploring Creative Practices in Knowledge Mobilisation. Using Lego, case studies, plenty of coffee and informed by existing models and theories in the landscape of Knowledge Mobilisation, a select group of experts will seek to define what creative practices and practitioners can bring to this field. They will build a […]

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Lab4Living using Lego Serious Play methodology to define identity, purpose and strategy

Lab4Living - Lego Serious Play

Matt Dexter, Research Associate with Lab4Living, has been trained and certified in the Lego Serious Play methodology as an LSP facilitator. We are now beginning a journey to exploration to see how this methodology can be adapted and evolved to enhance and support innovation in the healthcare field; service innovation and device/technology innovation. This team is a Community Support team […]

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Lab4Living supporting #MyDignityMeans – A patient-led event

My Dignity Means: A Patient-led Event 2 June 2015, 10am – 4pm Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK #MyDignityMeans Free to attend Patient and Carer travel expenses will be reimbursed Apply for a place by 19 May: www.mydignitymeans.eventbrite.com Lab4Living is supporting this unique patient-led event. Come and listen to patient experiences, and contribute to discussions around device design, dignity and the patient voice. […]

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Lab4Living wins more NIHR i4i funding for the Support4All project

Lab4Living: Support4All More NIHR i4i funding

Heidi Probst and Heath Reed have won another National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation (NIHR i4i) project for Lab4Living. With a development fund of £576,000, the Lab4Living team with clinical and industrial partners can now move forward with the development of a support device that will allow accurate positioning of the breast on a day-to-day basis, that is […]

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Thursday 05 February 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Heath Reed (Design Futures, SHU)

An image of Heath Reed, Design Futures SHU

Title: Positioning creative, three dimensional design practice and understanding its role and value in university based social research and development projects Speaker: Heath Reed (Design Futures, SHU) Heath Reed is an Industrial Designer and Design Researcher embedded within Sheffield Hallam Universities commercially focused product design consultancy, Design Futures and the Art and Design Research Centres Lab4living initiative. He graduated with […]

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Lab4Living awarded membership of the European Network of Living Labs

Photograph of ENOLL 8th wave members Lab4Living Awarded membership of ENOLL

Professor Paul Chamberlain, Design Director of Lab4Living has received official membership status with other new network members of the European Network of Living Labs (ENOLL). Professor Paul Chamberlain and Dr Claire Craig (Design and Health Directors of Lab4Living respectively) travelled to the Netherlands recently to attend the European Network of Open Living Labs’ annual conference. During the course of the […]

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Lab4Living awarded membership of the ENOLL

Photograph of ENOLL 8th wave members Lab4Living Awarded membership of ENOLL

Professor Paul Chamberlain and Dr Claire Craig (Design and Health Directors of Lab4Living respectively) travelled to Netherlands recently to attend the European Network of Open Living Labs annual conference. During the course of the three-day event, there was a ceremonious welcome to all new network members with Lab4Living standing proudly as one of this new wave of members. The European Network […]

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