{"id":6928,"date":"2019-04-26T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2019-04-27T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T17:35:42","slug":"gemma-wheeler-around-the-world-in-100-days-with-lab4living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/gemma-wheeler-around-the-world-in-100-days-with-lab4living\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the world in 100 days with Lab4Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Easter break has given the Lab4Living<\/a> team time to reflect on the year so far, and the opportunities our team have been able to explore. From Dundee to Plymouth, from Bristol to Bangor, and many places in between, we\u2019ve been lucky enough to work with partners across the length and breadth of the UK. Internationally, too, the team have been making connections in Japan, Milan, Malta, The Netherlands, India, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Lab4Living<\/a> is a multidisciplinary research group within the Cultural, Communication and Computing Research Institute (C3RI), with a focus on bringing Design-led research to fields of health and wellbeing. Our work spans a range of health contexts across the entire life course, and is characterised by the use of creating<\/em> and making.<\/em> These effective, empowering approaches include those affected by the research outcomes in the knowledge creation process, as a route to greater impact.<\/p>\n

\"Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy Family day Spring 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

Our team has a range of active research projects in the contexts of Parkinson\u2019s Disease, children\u2019s prosthetics, dementia, dentistry, long-term neurological conditions, paediatric Narcolepsy, urinary tract infections, ageing in place and paediatric incontinence, as well as exploring knowledge mobilisation and embedded research in healthcare. Our project partners are varied also, from children and families to patients, care home residents, front line NHS staff and government policy makers.<\/p>\n

\"Lab4Living

Lab4Living Parkinson’s service workshop<\/p><\/div>\n

For example, so far this year we have facilitated multi-stakeholder co-design workshops exploring and enhancing Parkinson\u2019s Disease service provision in Plymouth and the South West Peninsula (including people living with Parkinson\u2019s Disease, doctors, nurses and representatives from Parkinson\u2019s UK).<\/p>\n

\"Starworks

Starworks celebration event, live illustrated by Lab4Living PhD student Smizz<\/p><\/div>\n

We ran a workshop at the European Academy of Design 2019 conference, with our partners from Good Health Design (Auckland), to share methods of fostering collaboration between teams from Healthcare and Design.<\/p>\n

In New Delhi, India, we have been looking at using local materials to build hydroponics systems in schools that are enabled through play.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s activities have been eclectic, but what connects them all is a participatory approach that aims to involve people in research in ways that best empower them, inclusive of their physical, emotional, social or cultural position. We believe Design has a crucial role to play in bringing diverse stakeholder groups together to reflect and share their thoughts, experiences, needs and ideas. As well as exploring what we mean by health<\/em> and wellbeing <\/em>today, this Design-led approach allows us to co-create new solutions and how they might be implemented successfully into real-world, complex healthcare contexts.<\/p>\n

With many thanks to all of the people and places we have visited so far this year, including:<\/h5>\n

The European Academy of Design Conference, Dundee;\u00a0\u00a0 UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum, Newcastle;\u00a0\u00a0 Trent International Prosthetics Conference, Salford;\u00a0\u00a0 Function First partners: Bangor University, University of Liverpool & Cardiff University;\u00a0\u00a0 Sheffield Children\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust;\u00a0\u00a0 Devices for Dignity, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals;\u00a0\u00a0 Welsh Government, Cardiff;\u00a0\u00a0 All Wales Dental Faculty, Llandudno and Bangor;\u00a0\u00a0 The Starworks Network;\u00a0 \u00a0North Bristol NHS Trust, University of Bristol, University of West of England, University of Oxford, & NIHR Oxford Diagnostic Evidence Cooperative;\u00a0\u00a0 Embedded Researcher Network partners: St Andrew\u2019s University & University College London;\u00a0\u00a0 Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Westfield Health, & The University of Sheffield;\u00a0\u00a0 Parkinson\u2019s Service partners: University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Cure Parkinson\u2019s Trust, Flourish Workplace, Global Kinetics Corporation, Parkinson\u2019s UK, Fre-est, Radboud University, South West Academic Health Science Network, UCB Pharma Ltd;\u00a0\u00a0 Marie Curie, London;\u00a0\u00a0 Alzheimer Scotland, Edinburgh;\u00a0\u00a0 NHS Aberdeenshire;\u00a0\u00a0 NHS Fife;\u00a0\u00a0 OpenLab, Newcastle;\u00a0\u00a0 NESTORE partners: Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan), AGE \u2013 Age Platform Europe AISBL, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Research Council), EURECAT \u2013 Fundacio Eurecat, FLEX \u2013 Flextronics Design S.R.L, FSIE \u2013 Fundacio Salut i Envelliment;\u00a0\u00a0 WAAG-CARE & The University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam;\u00a0\u00a0 New Delhi;\u00a0\u00a0 The University of Tokyo, Japan;\u00a0\u00a0 the NESTORE project partners, Milan, and Good Health Design, Auckland.<\/p>\n

We look forward to seeing what the rest of 2019 brings!<\/h5>\n

Dr Gemma Wheeler<\/a>, <\/em>Design Researcher, Lab4Living<\/p>\n

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Do you have any ideas for collaboration or would you like to find out more? Please visit our dedicated website at lab4living.org.uk<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n

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