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H Barbara, so nice to hear from you and sorry not to get back to you sooner, but I have been head down in analysis these past few days. Your work with children and co-design sounds really interesting! My health research has been investigating an innovative primary health care reform initiative within a multi-disciplinary team and the current work is in partnership with Nick Hopwood, who received a grant to investigate relational agency between child and family health practitioners and the parents they work with. This is a three year project, and we are doing ethnography and interviews, using CHAT as an analytical frame and looking at how parents learn skills and resilience that improve their children’s lives in the long-term. For this project, we are working with different CFH organisations, contacts for which came about partially through the Health Faculty at one of the universities I work in, UTS, and partially through Nick’s contacts with the developers of the Family Partnership Model, which is mandatory training for NSW CFH nurses. It builds on a previous research project we did in 2010–2012. In both cases, I would argue this is practice-based or practice-focused research, although not design practice, but nursing practices. The theoretical framing for the first project was practice theory. My involvement in both projects came about through my postgraduate studies in adult education, then PhD in education and design. So it is not design research, although my design skills are immensely helpful, as anyone who has read Michael Taussig’s book will understand. Please also have a look at our book, ref below. My experience is that designers are very welcome as research partners in the health field, particularly if you work with nurses. I have not worked with doctors! I’m afraid this probably won't help much, but I wish you all the best, cheers, teena Clerke, T. & Hopwood, N. 2014, Doing ethnography in teams: a case study of asymmetries in collaborative research, Springer: London. Taussig, M. (2013). I swear I saw this: drawings in fieldwork notebooks, namely my own. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. > I am particularly interested in children as a vulnerable and under-served population, with the aim of using participatory methods of co-design as a means of empowerment for this user group. > > However, I have found it very challenging to make solid connections within the healthcare field, partly influenced by my exterior position and design training versus having come out of the medical field or even the social sciences. > > Outside of cross training or utilizing other forms of trans-disciplinary methods of working, I was wondering if you might have some suggestions, or would be willing to share some of your research? ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------