Chair of International Public Management, Prof. Stephen Osborne, explains the principals of co-design with vulnerable adults, and shares his lessons for theory, research and practice.

Co-design with vulnerable adults

Lessons for research and practice from the UK Healthy Ageing Programme

The Co-design with vulnerable adults: lessons for research and practice from the UK Healthy Ageing Programme workshop was advertised for the particular attention of policy-makers, public service practitioners and managers in Scotland, and for academics within the public management discipline. The workshop sought to bring together the lessons from theory, research and practice in Scotland to encourage participants to develop an understanding of what virtual face-to-face co-design with vulnerable persons looks like in practice, what these co-design approaches can offer in filling gaps in unmet need for public services for vulnerable adults, and what its challenges are in practice.

This video details and explains the principals of co-design with vulnerable adults and elderly people, and gives concrete examples from project work and demonstrates how co-design enhances project impact.

Stephen Osborne

Professor Stephen Osborne

Chair of International Public Management