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Researchers win award for best academic paper

An academic paper on workspace design written by Catherine Greene and Jeremy Myerson of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has won an Outstanding Paper Award in the Emerald Literati Network 2012 Awards for Excellence. More...

Design Museum award for ambulance redesign

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s landmark redesign of the emergency ambulance has won the Transport category of the 2012 Design of the Year Awards organised by the Design Museum. More...

Ambulance redesign features on BBC TV

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s landmark redesign of the emergency ambulance has received extensive BBC television coverage following its selection for the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition and awards at the Design Museum, London. More...

Make It Better exhibition visits Bangor

An exhibition of medical innovations created by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design went on show in the Management Centre at Bangor University, North Wales, this spring as part of National Science Week. More...

The Design Journal Special Issue: Inclusive Design 2013

Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Research Fellow Jo-Anne Bichard and Deputy Director Rama Gheerawo are to guest edit a special edition of The Design Journal to focus on Inclusive Design. More...

Make It Better at the Hunterian Museum

An exhibition of new designs for the hospital ward went on display at the Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum in London from 31 January to 4 February 2012. Make It Better showcased research outputs from the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) project, a collaboration between the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and Imperial College London. More...

Centre joins knowledge exchange hub

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is set to play a leading role in The Creative Exchange, one of four AHRC-funded knowledge exchange hubs that aim to develop the creative economy in Britain over the next four years. More...

Honorary Doctorate for centre founder Roger Coleman

Professor Emeritus Roger Coleman, co-founder of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Leuven in Belgium for his contribution to ageing research. More...

Redesigning the Ambulance at the Design Museum

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design's Emergency Ambulance redesign project has been selected as one of the nominations for the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition and awards in the Transport category. A mobile demonstrator unit will be exhibited at the Design Museum along with the rest of the nominations from 8 February until 15 July 2012. More...

Project to stamp out A&E violence in hospitals

An exemplar project to explore how design can reduce incidents of violence and aggression in hospital Accident and Emergency departments was formally launched by the Design Council and Department of Health on 16 November 2011. The design consortium behind the work included researchers from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. More...

BLOG: Making digital technology more inclusive

More than 14 million people in the UK can be termed 'digitally excluded' and the majority of these are older people. By Jeremy Myerson. More...

Hospital equipment launch

A new advance in hospital ward equipment, the CareCentre, has been launched by UK manufacturer Bristol Maid following collaboration with a research team from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, as part of the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) project. More...

Keynote at King’s Fund conference

Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Director Jeremy Myerson was a keynote speaker at the King’s Fund annual conference 2011, held in November at the Royal College of Physicians, London. More...

Methods Lab at the RCA

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s annual education workshop, the Methods Lab, was held at the RCA from 31 October to 3 November 2011, as part of the cross-college AcrossRCA programme. More...

Exploring Innovation showcases workplace design

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s Work & City Research Lab teamed up with Unwired Events and Inflate to present Exploring Innovation, a one-day day innovation fair of early-stage technologies for work and the workplace, on 5 October 2011 at the Royal College of Art. More...

Ambulance demonstrator unit launched

The latest phase of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s flagship project to redesign the emergency ambulance was unveiled on 22 September 2011 with the launch of a mobile demonstrator unit at the Royal College of Art as part of the London Design Festival. More...

Workshops reach out to schools

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design invited ReachOut RCA, the College’s art and design outreach service to schools, to use the theme of The Problem Comes First exhibition as the basis for a series of creative workshops with three London schools. More...

Ambulance redesign wins Papanek honour

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s flagship redesign of the Emergency Ambulance has received a prestigious honour in an international design award scheme held in memory of the Austrian-born designer and educator Victor J. Papanek. More...

Trading Places show in Japan

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s Trading Places exhibition, which celebrates a decade of activity by the pioneering Challenge Workshops, went on tour at three venues in Japan in autumn 2011. More...

Major exhibition for London Design Festival

The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has put on a major exhibition at the Royal College of Art this autumn as part of the London Design Festival 2011, entitled The Problem Comes First. More...

Eating, design and dementia project shortlisted

A design project by Senior Associate Gregor Timlin that forms part of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s programme of work in the area for dementia care has been shortlisted for Denmark’s prestigious Index Awards to improve life. More...

Centre director named in The Wired 100

Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design Jeremy Myerson has been named as one of Britain’s 100 most influential people in technology in the June 2011 edition of Wired magazine. More...

Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2011

Outstanding people-centred design projects by graduating students of the Royal College of Art will be recognised in the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2011, announced on 28 June. More...