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#86 | PANEL (60mins) | Codesign Compass: a practical guide to facilitating creative and authentic codesign for busy people

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Concurrent 2
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM

Speaker

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Ms Jessica Cheers
Educator
Queensland University of Technology

Codesign Compass: a practical guide to facilitating creative and authentic codesign for busy people

Biography

Jessica Cheers is an experience designer, design educator and play enthusiast. She advocates for the use of playful, creative and provocative methods in untangling complex problems, and is currently exploring how we might collectively imagine the future of healthcare through co-design. Her work spans a range of health and wellbeing contexts, from juvenile arthritis to end of life care. She is particularly interested in developing accessible and adaptable co-design resources, creating building blocks for meaningful creative collaboration.
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Dr Jeremy Kerr
Senior Lecturer / Program Leader
Queensland University of Technology

Codesign Compass: a practical guide to facilitating creative and authentic codesign for busy people

Biography

Dr Jeremy Kerr is a researcher and design lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and program leader for QUT Design Lab’s 'Design for Health' stream. His research focus lies in the exploration and development of co-design and design methods to support community groups and magnify the voice of marginalised people. He has worked extensively with community and government organizations and with health services in the areas of mental health and well-being, informal and formal education, children’s health, intercultural communication, and with the disability sector.
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Ms Belinda Taylor
Executive Director Communication, Culture and Engagement
Childrens Health Queensland

Codesign Compass: a practical guide to facilitating creative and authentic codesign for busy people

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Biography

Executive Director Communications, Culture and Engagement. Belinda is a highly experienced communications, corporate and public affairs professional with a career spanning more than 20 years and across a range of industries. She has delivered strategic communications, media and stakeholder engagement programs across private sector and publicly listed companies, political offices, government agencies and consultancies. She specialises in developing strategy that creates value-based stakeholder partnerships and multi-channelled communication programs. Belinda is responsible for Children’s Health Queensland’s internal and external communications, media, stakeholder engagement, organisational culture and leadership development, as well as the CHQ Arts in Health program.
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