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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.

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.

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.