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Communicating global health research priorities
April 2022: The James Lind Alliance was established in 2004 to enable the end users of health research – patients,…
The Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine – Identity and brand strategy
April 2022: We are pleased to be working with one of the world’s leading professional membership organisations dedicated to the…
Sexual Health Self Test – National STI testing service for Scotland
March 2022: We’re working with a great team at NHS Sexual Health Services across Scotland and with accessible social research agency…
NeoBrain – Online resource for families with newborns affected by brain injury
March 2022: Following our work on Metabolight with Dr Subhabrata Mitra and the neonatal team at UCL’s EGA Institute for…
Group clinic futures
March 2022: We’re continuing our collaboration with Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford, now with…
Communicating global health research priorities
March 2022: In 2004, the James Lind Alliance was established to enable the end users of health research – patients,…
Reimagining pain care for our NHS
February 2022: We are collaborating with Dr Jackie Walumbe, a doctoral research fellow in global public health at the University…
Physio by video?
January 2022: We’re continuing our collaboration with Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford to help…
A fortieth anniversary video for the MPS Society
December 2021: Following on from our work to develop three animations about rare MPS diseases for the MPS Society, we’ve…
Cultural Evolution Society graphic identity
December 2021 : As part of our work with the Cultural Evolution Society, we have been developing its new graphic identity…
Cultural Evolution Society’s Transformation Fund
December 2021 : We’re excited to announce that the Cultural Evolution Society’s Transformation fund website and grant portal is now live…
A practical guide for healthcare professionals
Oct 2021 : We are working on a new project with NHS England and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences…
We shape our buildings and then our buildings shape us
July 2021 : We are working with the Cultural Evolution Society to help communicate research on how human and other animal…
Helping people to choose the best way to consult with their GP Practice
June 2021 : We’re working with Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at University of Oxford and the University of…
Will we breathe fresh air again? The magic of MOFs
May 2021 : We’ve been learning about the impressive air cleaning properties of metal organic frameworks (MOFs for short), and we…
Merging Mind and Machine
April 2021 : We’re excited to be working with the Next Generation Neural Interfaces Lab at Imperial College to develop a…
Innovating for Growth
March 2021 : We’ve been selected to join the British Library Innovating for Growth programme which has been funded by the…
Fabry disease animation video – patient and clinician online workshop
March 2021 : We held a workshop with the MPS society for people with Fabry and medical specialists to understand more…
A talk with colleagues at City University and the Centre for Health Innovation Research
March 2021 : We had a great discussion with researchers from City University and Bayes Business School on ‘Pathways to Impact’…
A talk with colleagues from UCL and the Royal College of Art
March 2021: Anne Odling-Smee took part in a two day workshop at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience to discuss the…
Sayana Press – a video to help women use their contraceptive injection
January 2021: We are working with the Contraception and Sexual Health (iCash) team at Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to develop a video to…
Helping patients get the most out of their NHS consultation with the University of Oxford
January 2021 : Following on from our work to support video consulting with your NHS, we’re pleased to be working with…
Videos for the Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases to communicate rare diseases
January 2021 : We’re delighted to be working with the marketing and communication team at the MPS Society to help them…
Long Covid data communication with City University’s Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research
December 2020: We are collaborating with City University’s Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research to help to link underlying Long Covid research to…
Tiny Test Tubes Innovate UK Monitoring Officer review
November 2020 : We have completed our final review of our Tiny Test Tube project, working with University of Reading, Capillary…
MRI and Pacemakers – go together like Tom and Jerry!
November 2020 : Did you know that people with pacemakers and other devices are fifty times less likely to be offered…
Video consulting with your NHS
November 2020 : Following on from our successful animation and communication project supporting Barts Health and the University of Oxford, we’re…
Video consulting with your NHS resources translated to nine languages
October 2020 : Our popular NHS video consulting PDF resources produced with Sara Shaw’s team at the University of Oxford are…
Designing an HIV self-testing service for young people in Zambia
September 2020: We are working with a team from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Centre for Infectious…
Winton Centre’s Real Risk goes live
October 2020: The Real Risk service that we designed with University of Cambridge’s Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication…
Brand and communication design for Dunhill Medical Trust
August 2020 : We’ve been working with the Director and Trustees at Dunhill Medical Trust to reimagine their brand and help…
Working with the University of Amsterdam on Neighbourhood Social Cohesion
August 2020: We’re collaborating with Josefien Breedvelt and the research team at The Centre for Urban Mental Health at the…
Inspiring Science Fund with Wellcome
Since July: 2019 Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee has been working with Wellcome as project monitor for Techniquest (Cardiff) and We the Curious (Bristol), two…
‘Video consulting with your NHS’ co-design workshops
January 2020 : We are working with Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Barts Health NHS Trust to create a video animation and…
Designing a mobile testing kit to reduce anti-microbial infection in cattle farms in rural India
August 2020 : We are part of a team including veterinary scientists and microbiologists at the University of Reading who won…
Covid-19 ‘thank you’ badges for NHS staff and key workers
May 2020 : Camden-based journalist Martin Plaut invited us to design a badge to thank ‘not just the NHS staff, but the posties, the delivery…
Communicating air pollution – workshop with Imperial College London
November 2019: We are running a series of co-design workshops in collaboration with an environmental policy research team at Imperial…
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust poster design workshop
October 2016 : We collaborated with Royal College of Art Service Design tutor Dan Phillips to run a workshop for Imperial College Healthcare Trust (ICHT), aimed at…
Launch of Science Gallery London – blog for the British Council
November 2016 : Review by Anne Odling-Smee, following an invitation by the British Council to participate at Ireland’s first science communication…
Fest Design Science – conference at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
December 2016 : Design Science Director, Anne Odling-Smee, gave a joint presentation with physician and DS Associate Dr David Pao, at Poland’s first design…
Design Science presents at Ireland’s first SCI:COM conference
Octo 2015: Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee was invited by the British Council to participate in Ireland’s first science communication conference, SCI:COM. SCI:COM is an event…
Think (in) Visual Communication conference, Warsaw
December 2015 : Design Science Director, Anne Odling-Smee, was funded by the British Council to participate in the conference Think (in) Visual Communication at Warsaw’s Centrum Nauki…
Central Saint Martins science communication workshop
November 2014 : Design Science Director and CSM Lecturer Anne Odling-Smee was joined by DS Associate Ed Prosser to run a…
Design workshops for Cheltenham Science Festival, LSHTM and Imperial College London
March 2014 : We hosted a series of workshops funded by the Wellcome Trust, aimed at providing basic design training for scientists…
Panel discussion at the British Library: ‘Visualisation: Is ugly the new smart?’
March 2014 : Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee joined a panel discussion called Digital Conversations: A digital curator team evening talk series. The…
British Science Association Science Communication Conference 2014
May 2014 : Design Science participated in a panel discussion at the session titled The role of design in science communication at the British…
Wellcome Trust Hub Award shortlist
February 2014 : We have been shortlisted as finalists for The Hub Award with project partners the London School of Hygiene…
Article for Litmus Paper, Cheltenham Science Festival 2013
June 2013 : Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee and Phillip Kent explain how Design Science is working with scientists and engineers to improve understanding of…
Strictly Engineering – Design workshop for engineers at the British Science Association
June 2012: Strictly Engineering is the first of a new public engagement series for engineers run by the British Science Association (BSA). The…
Litmus Paper published at Cheltenham Festivals
July 2012: With support from the British Library we have produced a brand new edition of Litmus Paper, Cheltenham Science Festival’s daily publication…
Questioning art-science collaborations: Live debate at Imperial College London
June 2012: Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee was part of a live panel discussion at Imperial College London organised by molecular biologist, Dr…
Science and design: parallel processes? Live debate at Central Saint Martins
March 2012: Our second live debate was supported by the National Centre for Research Methods. We invited a panel of…
The Linnean Society Christmas Lecture by Anne Odling-Smee
December 2011: Design Science’s Anne Odling-Smee addressed a predominantly biology-orientated audience at the Linnean Society’s 2011 Christmas lecture with her talk, How can…
Design Science launches at London’s Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons
November 2011: Design Science hosted its launch event in style at London’s Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. A…