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Co-Designing Value in Informal Care
Jan 2023 - Present
Design Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Jan 2023 - Present
Design Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

As part of the ACRC work package on Understanding The Person In Context, I look to understanding the value of informal care in later life, and how it could be supported through emerging technologies. This project involves qualitative research, co-design techniques and design-led prototyping to work with participants, their families, carers, and healthcare workers over the coming two years.
As a research fellow within the Edinburgh Institute for Design Infomatics, I seek to understand how emerging technologies underpinned by data may support healthier, informal networks.
As a research fellow within the Edinburgh Institute for Design Infomatics, I seek to understand how emerging technologies underpinned by data may support healthier, informal networks.
PhD: Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
2023
School of Design, RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
2023
School of Design, RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia




My PhD research investigates the design of social engagement technologies with older Australians, demonstrating how modes of interpretative flexibility can support interaction designers in co-creating with ageing communities. This research speaks to two collaborative interdisciplinary projects that interrogate the digital divide and uneven social participation for older adults. With this phenomenon magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic, this thesis addresses a lack of understanding around social engagement technologies for later life.
☞ Thesis (Forthcoming): Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
☞ Thesis (Forthcoming): Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
☞ Article (2022): Gaining resolution when creating imagery of aging ︎
☞ Article (2021): The Art of Tacit Learning in Serious Location-based Games ︎
☞ Article (2021): The Art of Tacit Learning in Serious Location-based Games ︎

Mapping the experiences of people with long-COVID, an interdisciplinary team conducteda 3-month study of patients experiences of long-COVID. Analysing daily issues and coping over this period, we visually map the health literacy, self-efficacy, enjoyment of life and eating, and physical activity habits with those suffering with long-COVID.
☞ Program: Eat Health Move multi-College collaborative research ︎
☞ Grant (2022): RMIT Strategic Capability Development Fund
☞ Program: Eat Health Move multi-College collaborative research ︎
☞ Grant (2022): RMIT Strategic Capability Development Fund
An initiative of the Safeness by Design program, In collaboration with WorkSafe Victoria, we employ research and design innovation to provoke conversations to direct the creation of safer urban environments.
☞ Studio Report (2022): Future of Work Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Towards Re-Imagining Industrial Design Education for the Contemporary Period ︎
☞ Studio Report (2021): Enabling an Ageing Workforce Report ︎
☞ Studio Report (2022): Future of Work Report ︎
☞ Article (2022): Towards Re-Imagining Industrial Design Education for the Contemporary Period ︎
☞ Studio Report (2021): Enabling an Ageing Workforce Report ︎
Co-designing Participatory ICT Strategies With Older Adults
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Shaping Connections Research Program, RMIT
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia




Perceived risks remain are one of the main reasons many older adults do not engage with ICT and the digital economy. In better equipping older Australians to engage with the digital economy, we explore the perceived ICT risks that affect older Australians and co-designed strategies with them – connecting practices with perceptions.
☞ Article (2022): Co-Creating ICT Risk Strategies with Older Australians ︎
☞ Final Report (2022): Co-designing Participatory Strategies With Older Adults ︎
☞ Interim Report (2021): Reducing Perceived Risk & Promoting Digital Inclusion ︎
☞ Grant (2020-2022): Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Grants Projects ︎
☞ Article (2022): Co-Creating ICT Risk Strategies with Older Australians ︎
☞ Final Report (2022): Co-designing Participatory Strategies With Older Adults ︎
☞ Interim Report (2021): Reducing Perceived Risk & Promoting Digital Inclusion ︎
☞ Grant (2020-2022): Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Grants Projects ︎