The Challenge: Remote care for eating disorders Online and digital healthcare offers huge opportunities, but it also comes with unique challenges—especially for sensitive areas like eating disorder recovery. I work as part of the RHED research team at Northumbria University, and our mission is to improve remote care across the UK by co-designing tools that work for real people.
The Innovation: ConnectED on The Journey Toolkit: Together with healthcare providers and individuals with lived experience, we co-designed the ConnectED on The Journey Toolkit to support people navigating remote treatment. We are currently translating these vital research insights into official policy guidance for eating disorders remote care in England.
My Role as a Creative Doer & Researcher I bridged the gap between academic rigour, creative storytelling, and policy action by:
📋 Research & Ethics: Co-designing the official research protocol, created materials, and secured ethical approvals.
🤝 Community Workshops: Designing and delivering creative research workshops, focus groups and one-to-one interviews.
📊 Data & Dissemination: Handling data analysis and shared our findings with the wider healthcare community.
🎬 Creative Production: Acting as producer as part of a creative team in making an award-winning short animation co-made with and featuring the voices of people with lived experience.
🏛️ Policy Impact: Currently co-leading a series of policy guidance roundtables with key healthcare stakeholders across the UK place it with what you want to write. Use the advanced editor to design this content page.