This two 2 year project begins in January 2018 and brings together the expertise of a highly multidisciplinary team involving an academic architect, sociologists of medicine and science, micro-biologists and a graphic artist.

Principal investigator (PI)

• Professor Nik Brown (University of York)

Project team

• Professor Mike Brockhurst (University of Sheffield)
• Dr Chrissy Buse (University of York)
• Ms Lynne Chapman (Independent graphic artist)
• Dr Alan Lewis (University of Manchester)
• Dr Daryl Martin (University of York)
• Professor Sarah Nettleton (University of York)
• Professor Craig Winstanley (University of Liverpool)

We are also working in collaboration with Jonathan West and Hamza Oza at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design to develop virtual and in-situ exhibition materials to share our findings and create a space for dialogue between designers, architects, clinicians, patients and healthcare managers (see here)