DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lecture Series 2025-2026: Session 5

DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lecture Series 2025-2026

The DoWell research group offers an expanded interdisciplinary workshop and lectures series this year to provide the opportunity for colleagues to explore an exciting range of different topics, including practices and approaches to co-designing in various health and care contexts. The format of the monthly sessions is more flexible this year, including online presentations and panel discussions as well as in-person workshops for colleagues to get hands-on experience and get involved in the different approaches to co-design. The workshops aim to provide a forum and time for colleagues to meet and get to know each other’s work, and to foster discussion and cross-faculty collaboration.

We are looking forward seeing you all in the workshop.

Kristina Niedderer & DoWell group

Session 5: Well-making Together

Mah Rana

Abstract:
Mah presents findings from a PhD case study using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to understand a daughter’s lived experience of caring for and crafting with her mother, who is living with dementia. The talk discusses how recorded video serves as interview stimulus and how fore-conception (assumptions and prior experiences) shapes retelling. Mah also reflects on how re-engagement through video footage allows participants to reconstruct narratives in their own terms.

Bio:
Mah Rana is Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art and Research Fellow in Language and Cognition at UCL, specialising in phenomenological approaches to lived experience, care, and craft within dementia contexts.

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