01 Apr 22 - 31 Mar 23
01 Apr 22 - 31 Mar 23
Empowering Future Care Workforces aims to understand how health and social care professionals can benefit from using assistive robotics on their own terms. Empowering health and social care professionals through digital technologies has long been a goal in health and care policy. As governments invest in post-pandemic digital transformation, ensuring workers are empowered and not excluded by technology is more urgent than ever.
The project is generating insight for configuring, verifying and validating systems to best match the needs of staff in dynamic care contexts and to identify gaps in how technology augments their needs. With partners such as the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology and Bristol after Stroke we are scoping continuing professional development needs. And our analysis is also generating insights about the kinds of policy support and interdisciplinary research infrastructure needed for new forms of human-robot collaboration in caring environments during and after digital transformation.
We’re currently recruiting participants to take part in a set of online workshops with us. We want to talk to a diverse group of:
• health and social care professionals
• family carers
• people with lived experience of neurological conditions
If that’s you, click here for our PDF which explains more, or contact Dr Siabhainn Russell.
April 2022
November 2022
Seven questions to answer before deploying robots in health and care
Senior Research Fellow, University College London
Professor of Embodied Intelligence, University of Nottingham
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy UWE Bristol
Research Fellow, University College London
Professor of Social Research on Technology, University of Edinburgh
Research Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Chair, Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Neurology
Chief Executive, Bristol After Stroke
