A Development project to determine and progress the 'state of the Art' of Design theory and Practice in healthcare

我们欢迎AHRC将设计确定为战略优先事项。谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学的艺术与设计研究中心拥有20多年的设计研究和实践的丰富传统。在过去的5年里，这一专业知识已经被应用于健康和社会护理设计的复杂和尚未开发的潜力。这一临界质量的工作一直围绕着研究中心内的两个具体合作。首先是Lab 4Living，这是健康和设计研究人员之间的伙伴关系，从业者和设计师之间的伙伴关系，最重要的是使用产品和服务的个人与这些产品和服务的设计师之间的伙伴关系（www.lab4living.org.uk）。其次，国家健康研究所（NIHR）资助了以用户为中心的医疗保健设计（UCHD）。UCHD是另一个专门探索设计理论和实践在医疗保健中的应用的多学科项目（www.uchd.org.uk）。这些合作导致了2011年和2013年举行的国际Design 4 Health会议（http：//www.design4health.org.uk/）。围绕这一设计领域的关键挑战的对话已经在这个论坛上开始，但澳大利亚人权委员会的资助将允许进行文献审查和一系列研讨会，以探讨上次会议结束时确定的关键主题，即：设计和健康项目的评估语言如何阐明设计对医疗创新领域的独特贡献设计师可以采用的医疗参与模式范围拟议项目的第一阶段将是委托进行全面的文献综述确定在英国和国际上已经在进行的健康设计活动的范围和数量。这将为第二阶段的工作提供一个良好的证据基础。会议指导委员会已经有来自英国设计学术界的优秀代表，他们与那些具有医疗保健和健康研究经验的人一起，将能够开始框架，然后回答问题，并在交付项目的实际经验中找到答案。项目的后半部分将把文献综述和研讨会的成果转化为一个引人入胜的所有这些活动都将在2015年Design 4 Health大会上有一个自然的出口。

We welcome the AHRC's identification of Design as a strategic priority. The Art and Design research centre at Sheffield Hallam University has a rich tradition of design research and practice spanning over 20 years. Over the last 5 years this expertise has been brought to bear on the complex and hitherto untapped potential of design in Health and social care.This critical mass of work has been centred around two specific collaborations within the research centre. Firstly Lab4Living, which is a partnership between researchers in health and design, between practitioners and designers and, most importantly between individuals who use products and services and the designers of these (www.lab4living.org.uk). Secondly the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded User-centred Healthcare Design (UCHD). UCHD is another multidisciplinary project specifically exploring the use of design theory and practice in healthcare (www.uchd.org.uk).These collaborations have resulted in the International Design4Health conference being held in 2011 and 2013 (http://www.design4health.org.uk/)This conference and associated activities have provided an excellent focus for the discussion around the translation of design research into healthcare and have linked business, university and third sectors around a bewildering array of projects. The conversations around the key challenges for this area of design have started in this forum, but the AHRC funding would allow a literature review and a series of seminars to explore the key themes identified at the close of the last conference, namely:Languages of evaluation across design and health projectsHow to articulate Design's unique contribution to the field of healthcare innovationThe range of modes of engagement with health care that designers can haveThe first stage of the proposed project would be to commission a comprehensive literature review to determine the range and amount of activity already underway in the UK and internationally in design for health. This would provide a sound evidence base for the second phase of the work.The conference steering committee already has excellent representation from across the UK design academic landscape, who alongside those with experience of Healthcare and Health research, would be able to start to frame and then answer the questions, and ground the answers in the practical experience of delivering projects.The latter part of the project will translate the outputs of the literature review and workshops into an engaging digital form of disseminationAll of these activities will have a natural outlet in the Design4Health conference 2015.