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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.

This body of research explored attitudes to technology in everyday life and how this insight might be applied to the design of technology to support personal health care.

This strand of research considers the representation of animals in society and culturally. Through the work Chloë Brown asks how do humans interact with animals, how are animals displayed and how does our relationship with animals shape our understanding of them philosophically, culturally and socially?

Stigmas is a collection of furniture that embody issues relating to the physical, cognitive and attitudinal challenges older people face in everyday life

‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ explores the relationship between staff, space, institution and the visibility of care work, in the disintegrating UK healthcare system.

This research tested how a public work could:- i) leverage science/tech to improve public health; ii) redefine a discarded urban space to improve well-being; and iii) humanise the development and delivery of this work through multi-generational health activities and public workshops to encourage co-discovery of solutions to help fix the broken US healthcare system.

‘Shaping Sustainable Fashion’ explores theory, practice and methodology for fashion sustainability and specifically examines the way in which contemporary fashion clothing is produced, used and discarded. As fashion and textile designers become aware of the environmental impacts associated with clothing, this book presents a range of approaches that can be used to reduce and avoid textile waste.

Chloë Brown has long been involved in the field of artists’ publications and is particularly interested in the impact that Sol LeWitt has had on the field

The Immense Ventriloquism – Part.2 presents new work by TC McCormack, and showcases new and existing artworks by seven guest artists.

This project seeks to establish whether modified bio-composite sheet materials made from renewable natural resources can be used as viable alternatives