Web service to support health professionals

The Person Centred Research Centre (PCR) were committed to disseminating results from their research about living with, recovering from, and adapting after a traumatic brain injury over and above traditional academic dissemination. 

The objective was to transform the data and results from a large longitudinal qualitative study of over 150 interviews into a usable, accessible resource to allow a wide range of people to see the results and enable them to take the new knowledge into their practice.

In setting achievable expectations for the scope of this project I decided to present an in-depth look at a subsection of the results, rather than a surface level skim of the entire dataset. I worked with a few key stakeholders to understand their needs and the systems they work in. 

Advocating for user needs meant presenting information in ways unfamiliar to academic researchers. I needed to stay true to the research results while trying something different. I constructed composite narratives from the raw data to illustrate the research results.

This new product enabled users to engage with the content to the extent that suited them. The website serves as an asset for researchers to use when presenting to non-academic audiences. 

It also showcase different methods of knowledge sharing to academic researchers within PCR, resulting in other projects thinking outside the box. As a successful high fidelity prototype it is being used in grant applications as justification for funding further expansion.