Jacob Sheahan. PhD


Jacob Sheahan, PhD


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New Models of Long COVID Care
Research Fellow, RMIT University
2025 - Present

As part of the Long COVID Assessment Management and Practice (LAMP) project, I am exploring the experiences of people with long-COVID alongside medical and allied health professionals. Taking an experience-based co-design approach, the aim of this research project is to drive more 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 ︎, I was situated within the Institute for Design Informatics ︎


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 COVID, I supported a 3-month study mapping patients' experiences, as part of the multi-school, multi-college collaborative research project Eat Move Heal‘ ︎. Our longitudinal 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.


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


©2025 Jacob Sheahan