Pitch-In digital health webinar 1: "discovery" of user needs

“Discovery” of user needs in digital health: why bother?
A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion about all aspects of requirements gathering and user engagement in digital health development. The first in a series of four webinars on digital health innovation (broadcast live on Wed 27th Jan 2021 10:00-11.30am GMT).
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Chair for webinar sessions: Victoria Betton, Chief Innovation Officer, Mindwave
Victoria is Chief Innovation Officer at Mindwave, where she helps grow and develop the company's impact, working with the NHS, academia and the third sector to innovate with digital. She is a member of Tech UK’s Health and Care Council, HIMSS UK Advisory Board and Leeds City Region Digital Board. She is a trustee of refugee and asylum seeker charity Solace and a volunteer at Hackney Quest. She was previously founder and managing director of digital health consultancy mHabitat and collaboration space Co-Space North. She is a qualified social worker and coach with over twenty years’ experience in local government, third sector and the NHS. She has a PhD and is a published author.
Panelists
Ilsa Parry, UX Researcher, Mindwave
Ilsa leads on research and user engagement at Mindwave to inform design thinking, ensuring that Mindwave’s products are informed by human-centred insight to deliver a well-designed and valuable digital experience. With 15 years' experience as both a product-design entrepreneur and a senior university lecturer, Ilsa works across multiple design disciplines with high profile clients in both commercial and academic contexts including Unilever, BoConcept, Heals, MCSaatchi GAD and Sony. Ilsa is currently Trustee Director of Batala Mersey CIC and previously founded 4 award-winning North West organisations, bringing emerging design innovation to industry through European showcase opportunities.
Joe Langley, Sheffield Hallam University, Principal Research Fellow in Health Innovation
Joe studied a Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield, starting his research career developing the use of medical imaging data to build biomechanical engineering simulations. Later, Joe moved to the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University to help establish Lab4Living: a trans-disciplinary group of researchers from design, nursing, visual communication, fine art, and media, applied to enhancing health and wellbeing. Now Joe’s work focuses on co-production: involving service users and providers end-to-end in health research, product development and innovation. Joe pays specific attention to the ways that people are engaged; how their knowledge, experiences and contributions are valued and the impact their involvement has on the innovation, adoption and implementation processes.
Dr Kate Allatt (D.Litt.)
Dr Kate Allatt (D.Litt.) had a huge brainstem stroke with Locked In Syndrome - a condition where you can think, feel, see and hear normally, but move nothing - at 39 years of age in 2010. Astonishingly, against all medical expectations Kate made a full recovery. She founded and ran her global advocacy charity - Fighting Strokes - wrote the acclaimed and Internationally published book, ‘Running Free: Breaking Out of Locked In Syndrome’, pioneered the ESCAPS feasibility research, collaborates on many research projects ranging from mental health to functional rehabilitation, is a key opinion leader, health consultant for GripAble amongst others, and is a proven, worldwide, inspirational resiliency and TEDx speaker. Kateallatt.com @kateallatt
Kat Easton, Lecturer in Critical Psychology, the University of Sheffield
Kat is an applied social and developmental psychologist and for the past 15 years has researched the use of technology for mental health, in particular self-management and recovery for complex comorbidities. Areas of expertise include peer support, conversational agents, artificial intelligence, student mental health, recovery approaches, co-design research methods and evaluation. She specialises in facilitating and developing collaborations with industrial and charity partners. She has her PhD from the University of Manchester, publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals and is successful in obtaining collaborative grant funding for research in this area.
Supported by Pitch-In: Promoting the Internet of Things via Collaboration between HEIs and Industry, sponsored by Research England’s Connecting Capability Fund.