The Museum of Meaningful Moments (MMM) provides an online space for people to share small, meaningful moments from their everyday lives that may otherwise go unnoticed. Seeing COVID-19 lockdowns as an opportunity for people to slow down and reflect on what mattered to them, MMM aims to build an ongoing collection of appreciative moments during this globally challenging time.
We're looking for two design students, interested in illustration and/or animation, be interested in driving social media, and who can demonstrate leadership, collaborate and be responsible for the following:
The Museum of Meaningful Moments (MMM) provides an online space for people to share small, meaningful moments from their everyday lives that may otherwise go unnoticed. Seeing COVID-19 lockdowns as an opportunity for people to slow down and reflect on what mattered to them, MMM aims to build an ongoing collection of appreciative moments during this globally ongoing challenging time.
MMM is a live prototype to explore community ideas of subjective wellbeing. This research dissemination tool operates both as a research project and a creative research artefact. So far, we have used MMM to generate data on various themes from our other research projects. Part of using MMM as a research tool successfully requires deep thinking into how best to improve visibility and engagement from the community. In the past we have collaborated with organisations to bring MMM to their spaces for specific events as a way of collecting stories from the community.
We're looking for a design student(s), interested in illustration, and who can conduct research/do writing around engaging communities in a physical space. The student must demonstrate leadership, collaborate with our team, and be responsible for the following:
Good Health Design will be running its Design for Health Symposium in December 2023, to explore how we work with communities to bring their solutions to life – but with a specific focus on rangatahi as the leaders of the future. Mainstream providers have a role in working with those most underserved. They must also give space and time to allow rangatahi to lead and design their solutions and ways of doing things. This will require reimagining how ‘health’ and ‘wellness’ are conceptualised and addressed within contemporary practices and systems in Aotearoa, and will need to be people-centred, community-driven, co-produced, and underpinned by authentic partnerships.
We are exploring a new format of our symposium this year, having a series of talks by keynote speakers, each followed by an opportunity for attendees to discuss and respond to the talk in small groups through creative activities. We intend to invite the attendees to contribute any reflections or thoughts or insights from their discussion to a collective brainstorm. The aim of the summer studentship is to support Good Health Design to collate these collective brainstorms into a visual zine (or similar) as a record and archive of symposium’s proceedings for documentation and sharing back to symposium attendees.
We’re looking for a design student with an interest in design for health research, researching with communities, is skilled in illustration and graphic design, is a critical thinker, and who can demonstrate leadership, initiative and be responsible for the following:
METHOD is a resource written for students, researchers and practitioners whose work sits at the intersection of design and health. It is built on research undertaken by two design-led research labs, one in the United Kingdom (Lab4Living, Sheffield-Hallam University) and the other in New Zealand (Good Health Design, AUT), who have dedicated the last two decades to building an understanding of the role that design research might play in the broader context of health and wellbeing.
Over the last two decades we have recognised that some researchers struggle with how best to articulate their research. Sometimes there is confusion over the difference(s) between what is design and what is design research. Consequently, there is a need to build confidence in Design for Health research, methods and approaches so that outcomes are better understood and valued.
Building on the experience of our team and that of our overseas partners, we have built METHOD as a resource to help students, researchers and practitioners tell the story of their research. Often we put most of our time and effort into doing the research that we leave little time to properly capture and disseminate the findings and outcomes of our research in a way that is accessible to those who might benefit from it. METHOD tries to bridge that gap, by guiding users through a process of breaking their research down into a framework covering originality, rigour and significance.
METHOD has just been launched in late June 2023, but needs to be promoted in ways that highlights the benefits of this framework and resource to others. In this way we hope to evaluate the effectiveness of METHOD as a resource and tool. This summer studentship is in collaboration with Lab4Living, UK.
We're looking for a design student interested in research and graphic design, who can demonstrate leadership, collaborate and be responsible for the following:
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common joint disorder and the most prevalent form of arthritis. In 2010, OA ranked as the 11th highest cause of years lived with disability worldwide. A recent 2020/21 health survey indicated that 10.3% of adults in Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) live with a diagnosis of OA. Due to an ageing population, this is estimated to increase to 12.7% by 2040. Furthermore, the financial impact of arthritis on New Zealand’s healthcare system in 2018 was approximately $12.2 billion. The economic and societal burden of OA is further compounded by ongoing rises in modifiable risk factors (i.e. sedentary lifestyles and obesity), leading to global concern.
OA negatively affects peoples’ daily activities and participatory life roles. Research shows that OA leads to greater activity limitations in walking, dressing, lifting, and carrying objects than other musculoskeletal and rheumatic conditions. Providing education in the form of written and verbal information to improve patients’ knowledge of OA management is one of the primary recommendations from the NICE (2015) guidelines.
In 2020, our team worked in partnership with Dr Daniel O’Brien and Associate Professor Richard Ellis (Physiotherapy Department, School of Clinical Sciences, AUT) on a resource for OA specific to an AoNZ context. During the development of the AoNZ OA Guidebook, Arthritis New Zealand and Counties Manukau DHB (Middlemore Hospital) staff said they would value a short-form version of the resource (O’Brien et al., 2022). This is supported by research showing that providing too much information to patients in one go can negatively impact comprehension (Klerings et al., 2015). Currently, there is no nationally accepted evidence-based short-form educational booklet for people with OA in AoNZ. Over the past year, BHsc PhtyHons student Blake Francis, has been working on co-designing a short educational booklet for people with osteoarthritis in Aotearoa New Zealand. This summer studentship is in collaboration with Centre for Person Centred Research. This summer studentship is in collaboration with Daniel O'Brien and Richard Ellis.
We're looking for a design student interested in graphic design (publication, layout and potentially also illustration), who can demonstrate leadership, collaborate and be responsible for the following:
Guillain Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune condition that attacks the peripheral nervous system - most people normally make a good physical recovery with rehabilitation however many people are left with significant fatigue. We (Suzie Mudge, Greta Smith & Gareth Parry) have just finished a project aimed to decrease fatigue through regular activity. We developed a programme that used a coaching style to help participants set goals and make plans to change how active they were. Seven out of the eight people who took part in this programme had less fatigue after the programme and all felt they'd learnt a lot about fatigue during the programme that helped them manage fatigue more effectively.
One surprising finding was how little participants knew about fatigue despite having a condition where more than 70% of people have significant ongoing fatigue. Participants found that taking part in the programme helped them understand a lot more about fatigue and they developed ways to manage it better. They were clear that it would have been helpful if they had learnt this knowledge earlier in their recovery process. In response, we developed a simple information sheet about fatigue, how to be active when you have fatigue and other tips to manage fatigue. We plan to make this written information available as a handout and also on the GBS Support Group website https://gbsnz.org.nz/ but believe there is scope to produce this information in different formats and also extend the information.
We are looking for a design student interested in storytelling, illustration and video editing to produce one or more video modules as an alternate format to the basic information we’ve already developed. There is scope to also extend the information through interviewing key informants (e.g. participants and advisory group members from the original study, members of the GBS support group). The video(s) produced would be housed on the GBS Support Group website.
The specific parameters of the study will be finalised in collaboration with the GBS Support Group, supervisors and advisors. This summer studentship is in collaboration with Centre for Person Centred Research.