Alastair
Macdonald
Senior Researcher School of Design
School of Design
biography
I have circa 30 years experience as a researcher, both as principal and co-investigator, working across institutions and within interdisciplinary teams, focussing on ageing, health and care. These teams have included expertise in biomedical engineer, infection prevention, end-of-life care, dementia, spinal cord injury, software engineering, veterinary science, nutrition and dietetics, infection control and microbiology. In much of this work, end-users such as community groups and patients are supported as part of the larger team. This research has been supported by competitive grants from UKRI, NIHR and charitable trusts.
Awarded a personal professorship in 2000 by the University of Glasgow for academic leadership and research at GSA.
Winner ‘Best Research’ category in the inaugural 2018 AHRC/Wellcome Health Humanities Awards.
Research interests
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches requires mutual respect for the different approaches, methods, forms of engagement and evidence within different epistemologies, all of which may be required when tackling complex issues.
PGR supervision interests
Integrating design-led methods into interdisciplinary, mixed methods approaches for ageing, health and care-related research for thesis-based PhDs.
Current PGR students
Jing Li: Hybrid Interventions for Loneliness Reduction in the Elderly.
Shuzhong Wang: Narrative Approaches to Community Health Services for the Elderly.
Ailsa Morrant: Sensing Through Jewelleryness.
