Table Of ContentDesigning Interventions to Address
Complex Societal Issues
This edited volume is about the application of design-l ed approaches for developing
interventions that have the intention of addressing r eal-w orld issues and problems.
The book documents the realities of developing and designing interventions for real
people, in a real- world context. The topics covered in the book are multi-disciplinary,
and include examples from health and wellbeing, education, and agriculture. The
contributors provide open and honest accounts of the challenges and restrictions,
highlighting the positive impact that can be gained from involving stakeholders as
key voices in the intervention development process. These case studies suggest un-
derpinning methodologies that will support the formalisation of these d esign-l ed ap-
proaches, permitting the formation of robust frameworks in the future.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in design, design research, inter-
vention design, co-d esign, user- centred design, service design, digital design, digital
healthcare, and evidence- based design.
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 c o-
d esign approaches to develop interventions.
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Designing Interventions to Address
Complex Societal Issues
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Sarah Morton
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DOI: 10.4324/9 781003270850
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This book is dedicated to each and every research participant who
has given their time, ideas, suggestions, feedback to develop an
intervention; to all those who use interventions; and to every person
who has ever developed an intervention – the positive impact of which
goes beyond what can be put into words.
Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xvii
PART I
Overview / introduction 1
1 Introduction – using design- led approaches to design
with people: an overview of the realities in practice 3
SARAH MORTON
PART II
Design- led approaches for intervention development 13
SECTION A
Design- led health interventions 15
2 Person- centred technology for independent living: designing
individualised participation-f ocused interventions 17
DUNCAN PENTLAND, JULIE KING, AND GAIL C ARIN- LEVY
3 Co- designed or evidence- based? Developing digital self-m anagement
interventions for long- term conditions 34
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 47
KATE LAMONT AND ANDREW DUNCAN
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5 Take a stand for workplace health: designing s it-s tand desk
interventions to reduce sitting and increase physical activity 56
JENNIFER HALL AND LOUISE MANSFIELD
6 Designing innovation for health: the role of problem
framing in Uganda 70
LEIGH- ANNE HEPBURN
7 Towards a shared understanding of genuine c o-d esign with people
with lived experience: refections from co- designing for relational and
transformational experiences in health and social care in the UK 84
SNEHA RAMAN AND TARA FRENCH
8 Designing with predictive models: situating the Covid
Aware app in Jamaica 96
LARISSA PSCHETZ, ARLENE BAILEY, JONATHAN RANKIN,
JESSICA ENRIGHT, AND MARISA WILSON
SECTION B
Design- Led Lifestyle Interventions 113
9 An e- Laboratory Designed to Enhance Learning Opportunities
through Experience 115
WILLIAM JAMES MORTON
10 Futuring the Entrepreneur: design as Pedagogic Catalyst within
Sustainable Entrepreneurship Learning 132
GEORGE JARAMILLO A ND JOSEPH LOCKWOOD
11 Design- led approaches for responding to behaviour change: in the
context of adventure sport 151
SARAH MORTON
12 Make Space for Girls: Designing Greenspace and Other Public
Spaces to Refect the Needs of Teenage Girls 165
AMANDA SEIMS, SUSANNAH WALKER,
IMOGEN CLARK, AND SUFYAN ABID DOGRA
13 Designing beyond Tokenism: transdisciplinary Collaboration
within the Academy 182
LEIGH- ANNE HEPBURN
Contents ix
PART III
Cross- cutting learning and what next… 197
14 Reflections on C hapters 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 199
SARAH MORTON AND WILLIAM JAMES MORTON
Index 211
