Scoping Capabilities to Leverage Assistive Robotics through Co-Design

 

Empowering Future Care Workforces aims to understand how health and social care professionals can benefit from using assistive robotics on their own terms. Empowering health and social care professionals through digital technologies has long been a goal in health and care policy. As governments invest in post-pandemic digital transformation, ensuring workers are empowered and not excluded by technology is more urgent than ever.

The project is generating insight for configuring, verifying and validating systems to best match the needs of staff in dynamic care contexts and to identify gaps in how technology augments their needs. With partners such as the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology and Bristol after Stroke we are scoping continuing professional development needs. And our analysis is also generating insights about the kinds of policy support and interdisciplinary research infrastructure needed for new forms of human-robot collaboration in caring environments during and after digital transformation.

Read our project blogs

April 2022

A co-design framework for empowering future care workforces

 

November 2022

Seven questions to answer before deploying robots in health and care

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Dr Cian O'Donovan

Senior Research Fellow, University College London

Lead contact

Praminda Caleb-Solly

Professor of Embodied Intelligence, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator

Dr Praveen Kumar

Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy UWE Bristol

Co-Investigator

Dr Linda Sumpter

Research Fellow, University College London

Co-Investigator

Robin Williams

Professor of Social Research on Technology, University of Edinburgh

Co-Investigator

Dr Siabhainn Russell

Research Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

Research Fellow

Adine Adonis

Chair, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology

Industry Partner

Rebecca Sheehy

Chief Executive, Bristol After Stroke

Industry Partner
Partners

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