Eleanor Harvey co-design researcher at Loughborough

Video 16/20 in our Inclusive Research Guidance for Early Career Researchers

Dr Eleanor Harvey is a researcher in Complex Systems in the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University.

She applied her Human Factors expertise to transport (rail, marine, and aviation) and the construction sector before joining the DECODE team in November 2023.

DECODE is an NIHR-funded research project which aims to improve the health of people with a learning disability (sometimes known as an intellectual disability), 9 in 10 of whom have at least 2 long-term health conditions.

Dr Harvey’s role in the project is to co-design with health and social care professionals, carers, and people with a learning disability how best to put DECODE’s research into practice.

Funding information:

The TIDAL Network+ is a collaboration between UCL, Strathclyde, Salford and Loughborough Universities, led by Prof Cathy Holloway, Academic Director of Global Disability Innovation Hub and Professor at UCL. The research team includes Prof Laurence Kenney (Salford University), Prof Richard Bibb (Nottingham Trent University), Prof Mikko Koria (Loughborough University) and Dr Arjan Buis (Strathclyde University). We are funded from 1st September 2021 to 31st December 2024 by the EPSRC as a Healthcare Technologies New Challenges Network Plus (EP/W000717/1).

TIDAL stands for, ‘Transformative Innovation in the Delivery of Assisted Living Products and Services’. Our purpose is to improve the quality of Assistive Technologies (AT) and hence the lives of the people who use them, their families and carers.