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24 Nov 2022

Marney Walker and Life Story Network’s My Home Matters toolkit poster

Marney Walker presents ‘My Home Matters’ poster at UK Dementia Congress.

24 Nov 2022

Koski Koski new book chapter on Props in Breaking Bad News Simulation

A chapter on the use of props in medical training simulations for breaking bad news by Lab4Living Associate Professor Kaisu Koski and Kirsten Ostherr published in a new book, Making Sense of Medicine.

15 Nov 2022

What’s on in the White Building: November 2022

This month, the White Building windows give a glimpse of past and present projects through prototypes and artefacts on display.

15 Nov 2022

Beyond 100 exhibition opens at Hong Kong Design Institute

Beyond 100: Transforming design & imagining futures with Lab4Living explores how design can respond to our evolving needs as we age.

11 Nov 2022

Sheffield Hallam University opens major design exhibition in Hong Kong

Sheffield Hallam University’s design-led research group Lab4Living is collaborating with the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) to open a major exhibition exploring how design can imagine an equitable future and respond to evolving needs as populations age

The exhibition project: Beyond 100

09 Nov 2022

Lab4Living visits Good Health Design, Auckland

Lab4Living’s Graham Nesbitt and Claire Craig head to New Zealand to work with Good Health Design at Auckland University of Technology.

08 Nov 2022

Researcher Blog: Dr Joe Langley at Miami Transforming Evidence event

Research Fellow Joe Langley reflects on his research trip to Miami, where he co-delivered a workshop session at the International Transforming Evidence Network conference.

07 Nov 2022

Prototype launch of devices to help young people with arthritis manage their condition

Prototype launch of devices to help support young people with arthritis

24 Oct 2022

Design For Health Vol 6 issue 2 Apr 2022, edited by Claire Craig

In this year’s second issue, the Design For Health journal celebrates the holistic approach taken by the design for health community.

14 Oct 2022

PhD report published: Exploring how design can support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia

Marney Walker’s PhD study report on aesthetic preferences in dementia is out now in the Design Journal

13 Jun 2024

D4H 2024 Conference – Conference Programme now available

25 Apr 2024

D4H 2024 Conference – Register by the 17th May 2024 for the Early Bird rates

06 Dec 2023

Design4Health submission deadline extended

09 Nov 2023

Ursula Ankeny presents at 3rd Child Heath Tech Conference before beginning Australia and New Zealand placements

Ursula Ankeny presents at 3rd Child Health Tech conference and begins Australia and New Zealand placements.

27 Oct 2023

Submissions open for Design4Health 2024

Submissions now open for Lab4Living’s Design4Health2024 conference ‘Equilibrium in a time of permacrisis’ at Sheffield Hallam University.

11 Sep 2023

Kaisu Koski’s Permafrost Refreeze screened at UK Arctic Science Conference

Associate Professor Kaisu Koski screens her film ‘Permafrost Refreeze: The Reindeer Factor’ at the UK Arctic Science Conference this week.

08 Sep 2023

Paul Chamberlain joins panel at Retrofit 23 Wellbeing

25 May 2023

PhD student Roland van Dierendonck runs Chronomicroscopy workshop at ISEA2023, Paris

16 May 2023

Ursula Ankey to present co-designed toolbox in ‘Innovations in arthritis healthcare’ track at major European clinical conference this May

09 May 2023

Claire Craig speaks at Better Health by Design symposium, Dublin

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