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Director of the Collective Innovation Lab

• Developing tools and methods to support the collective production of human-centered solutions to complex challenges by diverse groups of stakeholders.
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• The group's vision is to have collaborative ideation and design methods stand as cornerstones for building a future where innovation is accessible, fair, and truly beneficial to all.

Aligning Conversational AI and Human Values

• Malak's PhD involved creating a framework and toolkit to improve alignment between conversational AI and human values through collaborative design practices.
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• Malak is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge University, with a BSc in Computer Engineering and an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration x Problem Framing

• Echo's PhD involves conducting studies to understand challenges around team dynamics and design processes in interdisciplinary healthcare design teams.
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• Echo's research addresses these challenges and aims to build a framework to create shared understandings and objectives for more effective collaboration, particularly in the problem framing phase of design process.

Codesigning Gender-Inclusive AI Health Innovation

• Diana's research involves developing an interdisciplinary codesign framework and patient-centred toolkit aimed to bridge the gender gap in AI healthcare innovation design, supported by EPSRC, UKRI. 
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• Diana is an innovation designer & researcher. She has worked in healthcare design, AI innovation and inclusive design working with companies such as GSK, Jacobs, Microsoft and Holition. She received the Young Innovators Award from Innovate UK, the Commendation for Excellence in IoT Innovation from Microsoft UK, and has been a delegate at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Women’s Health Innovation

• Mabel’s research investigates inequalities within women’s healthcare, with the aim to co-design innovative solutions and frameworks, through inclusive design principles.
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• Mabel has a background in Anthropology, Innovation and Visual Communication. Her most recent work has involved creating a human-centred design toolkit for Misophonia research. She approaches complex problems as ecosystems that require interdisciplinary understanding, in order to create social impact.

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Inclusive Women's Health Toolkit

By developing an inclusive tool that incorporates visual and narrative elements, this project will enable women to effectively address challenges within the healthcare system. This culturally sensitive and adaptable tool will facilitate meaningful interactions in various settings, whether in hospitals, consultations, GP visits, ultimately fostering improved understanding and responsiveness to women's unique health concerns or healthcare working environment.

Design x Science Toolkit

Sander developed an innovative toolkit for Design x Science collaborations. The toolkit supports early stage idea generation at the fuzzy front end of product innovation processes in the bio-economy. 

AI Co-Design with Practitioners and End-Users

Freya facilitated AI co-design between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences through a card-based toolkit. The card-based AI literacy toolkit to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences.