New team tools co-designed with libraries
Tool sharing with Cilip: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
* Laura Wareing
PhD Researcher in Design
Socially responsible design, co-design, inclusive design, design for policy, creative engagement
She is a PhD Researcher on Transformation North West, a cohort of twelve PhD students supported by five universities throughout the North West of England led by Lancaster, funded by the NWCDTP through the AHRC. The aim of Transformation North West is for PhD researchers collaborate on projects with businesses and organisations in the North West to develop new products and services in support of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy.
Her PhD research explores design’s role in meaningful engagement on future prospects with young people living in underserved places in the North West of England. She is conducting this through a series of collaborative projects with organisations and businesses in the region. One of the projects, Redesign by the Sea, can be viewed here and was showcased at the Design Research for Change Showcase at London Design Fair in 2019.
Throughout 2020, Laura worked as Research Associate on the AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship with Professor Paul Rodgers.
Previous to her PhD research, Laura worked for over five years in ImaginationLancaster in various co-design and knowledge exchange focused research and design roles. This included the role of Research Associate for Leapfrog, for which Laura worked with various organisations including the NHS, Lancashire City Council, Blackburn with Darwen Council, Child Action North West and led the development of tools for young people in care and the Inspirer newspaper, which won a British Youth Council award for innovation.
Laura is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Laura’s background includes a degree in Industrial Design and a Masters in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation, both from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Latest Updates from Laura Wareing
Reporting on Patient Experience at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Leapfrog is working closely with Rebecca Addey, a Paediatric Patient Experience Officer at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and her colleagues as part of the Rigorous Stories project at Lancaster
Exploring Capturing & Translating Member Engagement with Lancashire Care Trust Governors
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides health and wellbeing services such as health visiting, sexual health, and dentistry across Lancashire at over more than 400 sites. They have over 9000 members who have joined because they want to have their voice heard in an organisation that matters to them, as well as be kept up-to-date and informed about services and events
Projects from Laura Wareing
OpTex
Open innovation for textile-like materials made on a paper machine
Brief Encounters
An AHRC Network project to explore new forms of collaborative design processes
IDEAS for Impact
A project to help Lancaster University academics undertake high impact, excellent research
New IDEAS
The aim of New IDEAS is to develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic, creative industries and stakeholders that are not dependent on delivery by staff from Imagination for success
Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design
The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new approaches to consultation.
The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference
An interactive conference, which took place on the 26th and 27th of September 2013 that explored academic engagement with the creative sector as part of The Creative Exchange project