Categories: Health and Wellbeing

Collaborative Change in the North Sea

As intrepid researcher-designers and frustrated adventurers, a project that included sea survival training, underwater helicopter escapes and getting stranded on a gas installation 15 miles off the Anglian coast proved to be a dream come true.

There’s a lot of confidentiality surrounding this project, so this dispatch is necessarily circumspect. What we can say is that, in terms of our commitment to understanding behaviour as driven by contexts, rather than individuals, this project was tailored made for Collaborative Change.

Department of Health: Health and Wellbeing

Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Obesity

How do we make the Change4Life campaign work for us at the local level?

Change4Life is a wide-ranging preventive health programme designed to empower individuals and families to change their behaviours in relation to diet and fitness. The programme focuses on tackling quality of life issues related to rising obesity levels as well as the cost implications for the National Health Service (NHS) and wider economy.

Men’s Health Forum: Health and Wellbeing

Categories: Co-design, Health and Wellbeing

How can user-centred information design help improve male life expectancy?

Men in the UK are disproportionately affected by a wide range of health conditions: cancer, circulatory diseases, alcoholism, suicide… the list goes on.

The role of information

In response to this situation, the Men’s Health Forum (MHF) – a charity working to improving the health and wellbeing of men – initiated a project to explore the role that targeted information provision plays in driving this statistic.