India Read WIP - Feeling Systems
India Read WIP - Feeling Systems
Health services and systems are complex and difficult to change, often involving many stakeholders with different needs, interests, and perspectives that present unseen barriers, enablers, and opportunities. Despite this, various domestic and global factors make the need for finding new shared desirable futures more critical. Evidence suggests that co-design, systems thinking, and related methods offer valuable tools for supporting diverse stakeholders to collaborate to seek desirable change in complex health contexts. Yet there has to-date been limited research exploring how to foster and reinforce stakeholder engagement in impactful human-centred healthcare innovation practices.
In this hands-on session, we will engage with a participatory design method I am working on that draws on co-design and systems-thinking theory. The objective of the approach is to support stakeholders to collaborate in mapping a system context, understand the shared landscape of collective hopes, fears, and dreams, identify possibilities for shared desirable futures, and build foundations for collaborating to realise them. I’d be very grateful as part of this acitvity to hear suggestions and ideas for how I might further explore and refine my thinking in this space at this early point in my research. Thanks!
About
India started an industry-based, practice-based PhD in the Lab in March. Her research focusses on codesigning health system futures, which she is exploring through the NHMRC-funded OPTIMAL Center for Research Excellence co-design project on Immunoglobulin (ig) delivery for blood cancers. India is supervised by Associate Professor Leah Heiss, leader of the ETLab Health Futures program, along with co-supervisors Prof Erica Wood AO and Dr Catriona Parker from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine.
Event Details
- Date:
- 9 June 2025 at 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Description
India Read WIP - Feeling Systems
Health services and systems are complex and difficult to change, often involving many stakeholders with different needs, interests, and perspectives that present unseen barriers, enablers, and opportunities. Despite this, various domestic and global factors make the need for finding new shared desirable futures more critical. Evidence suggests that co-design, systems thinking, and related methods offer valuable tools for supporting diverse stakeholders to collaborate to seek desirable change in complex health contexts. Yet there has to-date been limited research exploring how to foster and reinforce stakeholder engagement in impactful human-centred healthcare innovation practices.
In this hands-on session, we will engage with a participatory design method I am working on that draws on co-design and systems-thinking theory. The objective of the approach is to support stakeholders to collaborate in mapping a system context, understand the shared landscape of collective hopes, fears, and dreams, identify possibilities for shared desirable futures, and build foundations for collaborating to realise them. I’d be very grateful as part of this acitvity to hear suggestions and ideas for how I might further explore and refine my thinking in this space at this early point in my research. Thanks!
About
India started an industry-based, practice-based PhD in the Lab in March. Her research focusses on codesigning health system futures, which she is exploring through the NHMRC-funded OPTIMAL Center for Research Excellence co-design project on Immunoglobulin (ig) delivery for blood cancers. India is supervised by Associate Professor Leah Heiss, leader of the ETLab Health Futures program, along with co-supervisors Prof Erica Wood AO and Dr Catriona Parker from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine.