All Outputs (11)

Clinical agility – an essential foundation for high quality healthcare. An experience report of the lessons learnt from designing a new cancer centre (2025)
Journal Article

Agility is essential for healthcare given its dynamic and constantly changing nature. Healthcare organisations that lack agility face deteriorating care quality, impacting negatively on patient outcomes and staff. Simultaneously improving and deliver... Read More about Clinical agility – an essential foundation for high quality healthcare. An experience report of the lessons learnt from designing a new cancer centre.

An architectural reclamation of death and dying (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Dr Kathryn Mannix, a retired palliative care doctor and eminent campaigner working to break down the taboo of death and dying in contemporary western society recently announced that ‘it’s time to reclaim dying: to demedicalise it, to see it as a pers... Read More about An architectural reclamation of death and dying.

Designing dying well: Towards a new approach to the co-production of palliative care environments for the terminally ill (2022)
Thesis

This thesis brings forth a new awareness of the in-patient hospice to enable shared understanding between architectural and healthcare professionals in the UK. A timely study, inasmuch that there continues to be a reliance on the third sector to prov... Read More about Designing dying well: Towards a new approach to the co-production of palliative care environments for the terminally ill.

The insider vs the outsider: Architectural investigations of palliative care environments as both researcher and daughter (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Architect Niall McLaughlin states successful design stems from an ability to “…imagine what it is to be someone else experiencing a place. This intuition is the cornerstone of an architect’s role.” Through architectural education and practice, first-... Read More about The insider vs the outsider: Architectural investigations of palliative care environments as both researcher and daughter.

The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective (2020)
Journal Article

Contemporary society has grown seemingly detached from the realities of growing old and subsequently, dying. A consequence, perhaps, of death becoming increasingly overmedicalised, nearly one in two UK nationals die institutional deaths. In this arti... Read More about The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective.

Tensions: Home vs institution (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Where do you want to die? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Designing dying well: Toward a new architectural approach of in-patient palliative care environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Neither a ‘hospital’ nor a ‘home’; the in-patient hospice has a unique architectural identity remaining largely undocumented. There is a plethora of architectural research regarding more common-place healthcare buildings such as hospitals and care-ho... Read More about Designing dying well: Toward a new architectural approach of in-patient palliative care environments.

Designing dying well: A question of homeliness (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A place for mortality: In-patient hospice architecture and its role in a dignified death (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the role of design and architecture within palliative care environments to influence a positive experience of dying. As more demands are placed on in-patient hospices, many providers look to rejuvenate their facilities. Can multi-... Read More about A place for mortality: In-patient hospice architecture and its role in a dignified death.

Environments of cancer care: Velindre NHS Trust
Report

This report was commissioned and developed with Velindre University NHS Trust as part of the design development of the new Velindre Cancer Centre.

The World Health Organisation, WHO states that ‘cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accoun... Read More about Environments of cancer care: Velindre NHS Trust.