Enhancing Networks of Care
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Edinburgh
2023 - Present
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Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Edinburgh
2023 - Present
Focusing on supporting healthier and more resilient networks of care, this project investigates how we can enhance the practices, knowledge, and tools available in later life. With three core threads, I am exploring the role of community-led, service-enabled, and technology-driven care networks.
Project - Improving Technology-supported Care Networks
Project - Designing for Ecologies of Care in Later Life
Project - Developing Support Pathways with Caregivers
Project - Improving Technology-supported Care Networks
☞ Zine (2023): Eight short stories of Ageing, Care and Tech ︎
☞ Article (2024): Navigating Mediated Kinship & Care while Ageing-in-Place ︎
☞ Presentation (2024): Tech Caregiving & Networks of Care ︎
☞ Workshop (2024): Designing with Friction - Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology ︎
☞ Article (2024): Navigating Mediated Kinship & Care while Ageing-in-Place ︎
☞ Presentation (2024): Tech Caregiving & Networks of Care ︎
☞ Workshop (2024): Designing with Friction - Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology ︎
Project - Designing for Ecologies of Care in Later Life
☞ Report (2023): CareTree Cultural Probe Study ︎
☞ Article (2024): Eliciting Networks & Ecologies of Care in Later Life ︎
☞ Article (2024): Eliciting Networks & Ecologies of Care in Later Life ︎
Project - Developing Support Pathways with Caregivers
☞ Briefing (2023): Lessons from Engaging Informal Carers ︎
☞ Grant (2023-2024): Wellcome Trust iTPA Springboard Grant
☞ Grant (2023-2024): Wellcome Trust iTPA Springboard Grant
Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
PhD Researcher
RMIT University
2019 - 2023
PhD Researcher
RMIT University
2019 - 2023
Designing social engagement technologies with older Australians, my doctorate demonstrated how modes of interpretative flexibility can support interaction designers in co-creating with ageing communities.
☞ Thesis (2022): Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life ︎
Project - Pet Playing for Placemaking
☞ Article (2021): Tacit Learning in Serious Location-based Games ︎
☞ Presentation (2021): Placemaking with Pets around a Pandemic ︎
☞ Grant (2021): Give Where You Live Foundation
Project - Social Engagement Technologies in Later Life
☞ Article (2022): Gaining Resolution when Creating Imagery of Aging ︎
Project - Pet Playing for Placemaking
☞ Article (2021): Tacit Learning in Serious Location-based Games ︎
☞ Presentation (2021): Placemaking with Pets around a Pandemic ︎
☞ Grant (2021): Give Where You Live Foundation
Project - Social Engagement Technologies in Later Life
☞ Article (2022): Gaining Resolution when Creating Imagery of Aging ︎
Long-COVID Patient Journeys
Research Assistant
RMIT University
2022
Research Assistant
RMIT University
2022
Recognising the lack of understanding around the experiences of people with long-term, I supported a 3-month study mapping patients' experiences. This analysis highlighted the role of agency and social support in their lives.
☞ Article (2024): Journey Mapping Long COVID ︎
☞ Article (2023): Australian Long COVID Services & Guidelines ︎
☞ Article (2023): Australian Long COVID Services & Guidelines ︎
In collaboration with WorkSafe Victoria, I supported the Safeness by Design ︎ undergraduate studio to employ research and design innovation and provoke conversations around creating safer urban environments.
☞ Report (2022): Future of Work Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Re-Imagining Industrial Design Education ︎
☞ Report (2021): Enabling an Ageing Workforce Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Designing to Enable an Ageing Workforce ︎
☞ Report (2022): Future of Work Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Re-Imagining Industrial Design Education ︎
☞ Report (2021): Enabling an Ageing Workforce Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Designing to Enable an Ageing Workforce ︎
Co-designing Participatory ICT Strategies With Older Adults
Research Assistant
RMIT University
2020 - 2022
Research Assistant
RMIT University
2020 - 2022
Towards better equipping older Australians to engage with the digital economy, Shaping Connections ︎ explored the perceived ICT risks that affect older Australians and co-designed strategies with them – connecting practices with perceptions.
☞ Article (2024): Factors influencing seniors’ anxiety in using ICT ︎
☞ Article (2024): Playing with Persona ︎
☞ Article (2023): Strength-based co-design that EMPOWERs ︎
☞ Report (2022): Co-designing Participatory Strategies With Older Adults ︎
☞ Article (2022): Co-Creating ICT Risk Strategies with Older Australians ︎
☞ Report (2021): Reducing Perceived Risk & Promoting Digital Inclusion ︎
☞ Grant (2020): ACCAN Project Grants ︎
☞ Article (2024): Factors influencing seniors’ anxiety in using ICT ︎
☞ Article (2024): Playing with Persona ︎
☞ Article (2023): Strength-based co-design that EMPOWERs ︎
☞ Report (2022): Co-designing Participatory Strategies With Older Adults ︎
☞ Article (2022): Co-Creating ICT Risk Strategies with Older Australians ︎
☞ Report (2021): Reducing Perceived Risk & Promoting Digital Inclusion ︎
☞ Grant (2020): ACCAN Project Grants ︎