Carnival at the Boundaries: public participation in research in health

This seminar will explore the role of public participation in complex design collaborations in health. Our panel will focus on unpacking different issues surrounding public participation and participatory processes in research by bringing together perspectives from design and healthcare. Together we will explore tensions in the way we approach and undertake research with a focus on collaborative and design-based methodologies.

The seminar will begin with short presentations from our speaker panel to introduce their research and/or practice and unpack how they work with complex collaboration. This will be followed by deeper discussion between the speakers and the audience to make explicit the challenges of these limitations and to surface insights and possibilities for future ways of working.

Event Agenda

3pm: Speaker presentations

4pm: Open-room discussion & reflection

Social drinks

Our speakers include:

Dr Joe Langley PhD, Meng, Principal Research Fellow - Design Research, Sheffield Hallam University. Joe applies Design and Co-design practices as methods to applied Research and Knowledge Mobilisation in the field of Health and Wellbeing, to reduce inequality, and improve quality of life.

Prof Marie Elf is a professor of nursing at Dalarna University, and director of the Environment, Technology, and Participation research group. Prof Elf has a PhD in Architecture, and has worked across interdisciplinary teams in healthcare, nursing and architectural research.

Dr Aaron Davis is a senior lecturer at the University of South Australia with a research focus on co-design and public participation in research. He has collaborated extensively in health disciplines, and has developed a series of novel frameworks for rethinking the way researchers engage with communities.

Host or Publisher UAL's Complex Design Collaborations Research Group