2023 - Informal Networks of Care

Enhancing Networks of Care
Research Fellow
University of Edinburgh
2023 - 2025

Focusing on supporting healthier and more resilient networks of care, I coordinated a work package component that investigated the role of community-led, service-enabled, and technology-driven care networks. As part of the Advanced Care Research Centre ︎ and in connection with Institute for Design Informatics ︎

︎ Article (2024): Navigating Mediated Kinship & Care while Ageing-in-Place
︎ Article (2024): Exploring Generative Postcard Futures with Older Adults
︎ Article (2024): Designing with Friction - Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology
︎ Article (2024): Eliciting Networks & Ecologies of Care in Later Life
︎ Abstract (2024): Tech Caregiving & Networks of Care

︎ Report (2024) Creating an Alternative Support Pathway for Older Informal Carers

︎ Zine (2023): Eight short stories of Ageing, Care and Tech

︎ Report (2023): CareTree Cultural Probe Study

︎ Grant (2023-2024): Wellcome Trust iTPA Springboard Grant

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

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^{I acknowledge the peoples on whose lands I conduct my work, and respectfully acknowledge Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.}