Design for Health and Wellbeing Research Group (DoWell)

Description

In the Design for Health and Wellbeing group, we pioneer the use of collaborative creative processes
from craft and design to support people’s metal and physical health and to improve products,
environments, services and interactions for health and care. We co-design our research into the
social and societal aspects of health and wellbeing with the people who will benefit from our studies.
Our research contributes to national and international action on mental/health, disability, dementia
and neurodiversity.

Our research areas:
• Collaborative design practices and well-making
• Mental/Health and wellbeing across the age span
• Designing for wellbeing with people with dementia, neurodiversity, cerebral palsy, and
others
• Investigating sustainable health and wellbeing: working with nature