Jacob Sheahan, PhD



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Co-designing Better Long-COVID Journeys
Research Fellow
RMIT University
2025 - 



Through the Long-COVID Assessment Management and Practice (LAMP) project, I will be working with people experiencing long-COVID alongside medical and allied health professionals. Taking an experienced-based co-design approach, the aim of this research project is to drive effective, inclusive models of care for those living with long-COVID. Part of the Eat, Move, Heal Network ︎

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 ︎


Project - Improving Technology-supported Care Networks

Project - Designing for Ecologies of Care in Later Life

Project - Developing Support Pathways with Caregivers
︎ Report (2024) Creating an Alternative Support Pathway for Older Informal Carers
︎ Grant (2023-2024): Wellcome Trust iTPA Springboard Grant

Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
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.


Journey Mapping Long COVID
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, as part of the multi-school, multi-College collaborative research project Eat Move Heal‘ ︎. Our longitudantal mixed methods analysis highlighted the role of agency and social support in their lives




Worksafe by Design
Research Assistant
RMIT University
2021 - 2022


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.

︎ Article (2022): Designing to Enable an Ageing Workforce
︎ Article (2022): Re-Imagining Industrial Design Education
︎ Report (2022): Future of Work Report
︎ Report (2021): Enabling an Ageing Workforce Report


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


©2024 Jacob Sheahan