Women's and midwives' perspectives on the design of a text messaging support for maternal obesity services
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User-centred healthcare design
User-centred healthcare design (UCHD) brings together patients, healthcare staff, families and communities to explore and understand the real-life experiences of healthcare. We use that knowledge to drive innovation and improvement in healthcare service delivery.
European Academy of Design
In April 2013, at the 10th EAD Conference held in Gothenburg, Professor Paul Atkinson took over the role of Chair of the Academy from Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, who ran the Academy since it was founded in 1994.
Student’s innovative wheelchair buggy wins design competition
A state-of-the-art buggy which affixes to wheelchairs, designed by Sheffield Hallam Student Tom Baker, has won Bolt Burdon Kemp’s Design the Change competition.
Sheffield Hallam product design students win prestigious industry awards
Students from Sheffield Hallam University have won awards and commendations at both New Designers 2025 and Bolt Burdon Kemp’s Design the Change competition
Structural design and stress analysis
Our services in this area include design and analysis of reinforced concrete and steel structures; reliability analysis of bridges; design and stress analysis of pipe coupling systems for water, gas and oil; numerical and finite element analysis
Hallam to lead project to create a net-zero design culture
Academics are leading a new research network to give educators, researchers and businesses the tools they need to embed net-zero principles into design.
RSA Spinal Injury Design Workshops
This Lab4Living project relates to Design and Rehabilitation, an RSA initiative which began in 2009, to teach design to people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) as a route to independence, resourcefulness and greater control over their lives.
Rituals of Self Design
In the quest for an optimised body that incarnates beauty, wealth, health, and success, a growing number of individuals across social sectors are engaging in practices of body modification. With the advances in medical research and the popularisation of surgery, the body becomes a luxury item, a malleable design matter, which can be sculpted, sucked, lifted and invested into.
Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar
Examining the design history of the electric guitar as a technological object, a cultural icon and a social construct