Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues

Sarah Morton is a senior academic at the University of Edinburgh. She is a design engineer and ethnographer, and uses participatory, shared decision making and co-design approaches to develop interventions.

PART I Overview / introduction

1. Introduction – using design-led approaches to design with people: an overview of the realities in practice

Sarah Morton

PART II: Design-led approaches for intervention development

SECTION A: Design-led health interventions

2. Person-centred technology for independent living: designing individualised participation-focused interventions

Duncan Pentland, Julie King, and Gail Carin-Levy

3. Co-designed or evidenced based? Developing digital self-management interventions for long-term conditions

Claire McCallum, Miglena Campbell, Kate Hackett, and John Vines

4. Targeted Design for a Specialist Working Population: how Farm Vets Inform the Design of Web-based Interventions That Support Coping

Kate Lamont and Andrew Duncan

5. Take a stand for workplace health: designing sit-stand desk interventions to reduce sitting and increase physical activity

Jennifer Hall and Louise Mansfield

6. Designing innovation for health: The role of problem framing in Uganda

Leigh-Anne Hepburn

7. Towards a shared understanding of genuine co-design with people with lived experience: reflections from co-designing for relational and transformational experiences in health and social care in the UK

Sneha Raman and Tara French

8. Designing with predictive models: situating the Covid Aware app in Jamaica

Larissa Pschetz , Arlene Bailey, Jonathan Rankin, Jessica Enright, and Marisa Wilson

SECTION B: Design-led Lifestyle Interventions

9. An e-Laboratory Designed to Enhance Learning Opportunities through Experience

William James Morton

10. Futuring the Entrepreneur: design as a Pedagogic Catalyst within Sustainable Entrepreneurship Learning

George Jaramillo and Joseph Lockwood

11. Design-led approaches for responding to behaviour change: in the context of adventure sport

Sarah Morton

12. Make Space for Girls: Designing Greenspace and Other Public Spaces to Reflect the Needs of Teenage Girls

Amanda Seims, Susannah Walker, Imogen Clark, and Sufyan Abid Dogra

13. Designing beyond Tokenism: transdisciplinary Collaboration within the Academy

Leigh-Anne Hepburn

PART III: Cross-cutting learning and what next…

14. Reflections on Chapters 2-13: what can we learn from existing multi-disciplinary practice, and what next?: toward a framework for design-led practice for designing complex interventions to address societal issues

Sarah Morton, William James Morton