Archives: Speakers

Senior lecturer in Critical Care at Sahlgrenska Academy. Researcher in a project relating to the physical environment in special residential homes for young persons. Olausson’s focus in her research has been on the meaning of space and place in forensic psychiatric hospitals, youth homes and Intensive Care Units.

With over 20 years’ experience within the healthcare industry, Kate has managed a wide range of major capital development projects for healthcare providers. This includes delivering health planning services from the early concept stages of a project all the way through to commissioning and occupation. The breadth of Kate’s experience, in terms of the aspects… Read more »

Whether addressing healthcare, education, S&T, or residential briefs, and increasingly the hybridisation of some or all of these, he always seeks to challenge orthodoxies, think creatively, and speak frankly to the realities of both commercial imperatives and lived experiences. Mark’s projects consistently explore how, through design, we can build beautiful places, deliver value in its… Read more »

Lienelle has 17 years’ experience working on healthcare projects in both the UK and Ireland. She brings a working knowledge of best practice standards as well as current trends for healthcare design. Lienelle is currently the co-design lead for the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital. With mental and physical health services alongside biomedical research facilities under… Read more »

Currently working as a clinical lead for the New Warneford Park development, Oxford Health NHS Foundation trust. A mental Health Nurse with 37 years of experience working as both a clinician with a background in adult inpatient and community care and as an operational manager, managing clinical services in Adult mental health and Forensic services…. Read more »

Lloyd Griffiths is a registered mental health nurse with over 25 years’ experience. Lloyd has worked extensively in adult mental health nursing and has been a ward manager, senior nurse and lead nurse in areas such as Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU), Adult Inpatient services and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment (CRHT). In September 2021 he was… Read more »

William is an architect and a healthcare researcher. His research in healthcare focuses in mental health care, informed partly by the Master of Research degree in Healthcare and Design and partly by his professional practice. William is also an associate with the Design in Mental Health Network. As an architect, William began working in the… Read more »

I have been working as an Occupational Therapist for the past 6 years in the NHS. I currently work as a specialist Learning Disabilities Occupational Therapist working with Adults with a Learning Disability in the community to increase their independence in their activities of daily living. I have recently qualified as a Sensory Integration practitioner…. Read more »

Dr Steve Fossey is Associate Professor in Fine Art and Interim Co-Head of Arts, Culture and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. As a practitioner–researcher with over twenty years’ experience he has written, led and taught on programmes across the arts, and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Steve’s practice-as-research Ph.D. explored how site-specific… Read more »