A new Masters by Research: Healthy Ageing Futures cluster has been announced which will commence in 2018. The research program brings together candidates and leading academics in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research cluster within the School of Design, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology.
Working across the disciplines of product and service design, interactivity and media, system design, visual design, spatial, health sciences and business, the collaborative cluster will engage existing design and health competencies and apply them to questions that investigate ageing models and product service systems that support healthy ageing in place.
The Masters by Research themes are focused on one or several of the program’s main research areas:
> Holistic, integrated or collaborative elderly care and home living models to enable ageing in place
> Health service and product systems to support mental health, dementia and palliative care
The Masters by Research cluster undertakes practice-based and traditional research and is based in: ethnographic research • human-centred design • co-design • system design • inclusive design • future foresight • accelerating technologies. The academic leads are Professor Lawrence Wallen and Vivien Sung.
The full-time program is suitable for interested candidates with backgrounds in Design, Interaction Design, Spatial Design, Robotics, Health Sciences & Nursing and Business.
The small selected cohort will work with leading academics to undertake a practice-based research investigation and thesis, engage in regular collaborative knowledge-sharing workshops and seminars, develop connections with ageing experts, industry and government, and build expertise in an area of healthy and active ageing. Limited spaces are available. Local candidates are eligible for fee exemption.
Expressions of interest for the 2018 program are open to practice-based and research active academics http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4082204/Masters-by-Research-EOI-Healthy-Ageing-Futures
EOI Applications close on 15 February 2018, 9am AEST.