Supervisor Assessor and Practice Educator updates - core content

Alaster's work has concentrated on understanding the issues surrounding the accessibility of packaging for older people and people with disabilities. The initial work concentrated on looking at ways to measure consumer's strength in a more realistic fashion using a bespoke measuring device.

The data-objects project is a practice-based research project that asks can the creation of physical artefacts based on data extracted from complex digital information systems change the way we read, interpret and respond to digital information?

Involving users in the design of medical products appears to be ‘common sense’; the notion that an individual that lives with a particular condition has a unique insight into life with that condition appears self-evident.

In 2010, three exhibitions articulated Zellweger's enquiry, using the exhibition format as discursive element: a joint exhibition with artist Emma Woffenden, the medical/artistic context of a group show for the benefit of a Breast Cancer Foundation, and a solo show as installation.

KeyPiece was a combined public exhibition and research event bringing together leading metalworking practitioners and their work in November 2009.

Mokume gane is a high value, decorative laminate material used in the jewellery industry. Production of mokume gane is difficult and expensive at both small scale and industrial levels.

This Special Issue speaks to CRIs notion of improvisation as a site for the analysis of social practice. To this end the authors explore practical experiences of improvisation through experimental artistic practice. The research sets out to construct a tripartite structure that incorporates failure, serendipity, and sagacity, leading to improvisation by exploring the practice of Tacita Dean and in particular the exhibition, 'An Aside' (2005).

Building on the ‘engagingaging’ project and series of associated exhibitions 'Exhibition in a box' is a transnational research platform that involves health academics, health practitioners and older people in the UK, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Malta.

Telehealth and Care Technologies is a core theme of Collaboration in Leadership for Applied Research and Healthcare (NIHR). The overarching aim of this theme, led by the University of Sheffield, is to produce a step change in knowledge and practice in the design and use of telehealth and care technologies in services that are effective, cost-effective and are usable by the broadest possible range of people.