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Call for Papers: Design4Health Conference

26 Mar 2018 (All Day)

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We are pleased to invite papers from researchers and practitioners for the fifth European Design4Health conference to be held in Sheffield, UK between 3rd – 5th September 2018.

Established in 2011, Design4Health is a conference that brings together designers and creative practitioners with researchers, clinicians, policy makers and users to discuss, disseminate and test their approaches and methods. Our events provide an opportunity to reflect on how the disciplines of design and health might continue to develop new ways of thinking and working, and how we might impact positively and sustainably on the social, economic and cultural factors within our communities and beyond.

 

2018 themes

We invite papers from researchers and practitioners across the areas of design and health in order to develop new dialogues and offer different perspectives. Given that our focus is very much on designing with people, we encourage submissions from individuals using services and products, and the sharing of real-life experiences.

Design for Health?

This year we particularly welcome contributions that interrogate meanings and assumptions relating to the terms ‘design’ and ‘health’, and offer the following words/terms as provocations:

Design?; Health?; Value?; Technology?; Taboo?; Care?; Risk?; Success?

 

Submissions

There are three submission types in Design4Health2018:

Paper presentations

These should aim to give a brief summary of a piece of research or a project, either completed or still in progress. These may be from the perspective of researchers or of participants in the research.

Abstracts for submissions of this kind should be a maximum of 300 words (including all text) and may include up to 3 images.

Abstracts will be peer reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts will submit full papers before the conference. Full papers of 3000 words should describe the work in more depth, and may be accompanied by up to 7 images.

Artefact-led presentations

Recognizing that healthcare and the lived experiences of illness are enacted and shaped through everyday objects (instruments, devices, dress, furniture), we offer an opportunity for presenters to use these (actual or photographs) as the basis of their presentation. The artefact may be the outcome of the research (a resulting product or design), the method (the practice through which the research was undertaken) or be the stimulus for the research. Abstracts for submissions of this kind should aim to give a brief summary of the research and include up to 5 photographs to illustrate and bring life to the work.

Abstracts are a maximum of 300 words (including all text) and may include up to 5 images.

Abstracts will be peer reviewed and authors of accepted abstracts will submit visual essays before the conference. A Visual Essay should be no more than 1000 words (this limit includes tables, references, figure captions, endnotes) plus 7 to 10 images.

Full papers

Papers for the conference are peer reviewed. Authors of accepted abstracts for paper presentations will submit full papers (3000 words) before the conference. Authors of artefact-led presentations will submit visual essays (1000 words) before the conference.

Accepted papers and essays will be published in the online conference proceedings of Design4Health (with ISBN). Selected authors will be invited to submit extended papers for consideration for the Design for Health Journal (Taylor & Francis).

Posters

Poster submissions are invited in the form of a brief (150 word) abstract plus an A4 or A3 text / visual representation of your work in pdf format.  On acceptance, presenters are requested to produce a visually engaging poster using a template which will be provided. The finished poster should not contain extensive amounts of detailed text but may provide further detail through links and/or associated A4 or A5 handouts. Templates and guidance relating to the posters will be provided on the conference website. If accepted, you will be allocated time to present your poster at specified times during the conference.

All submissions will be reviewed by a peer review panel.

 

Deadlines

Full details will be announced in January. The draft timetable is as follows:

26th  March 2018: Deadline for abstracts

11th May 2018: Authors notified of outcome of peer review

18th June 2018: Deadline for Full paper submission

 

Fees

To be announced soon.

26 Mar 2018 (All Day)

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