Chris Lawer’s paper "The Creation of Concrete Real Experience" investigates the process by which...
Rethink Health and Experience for Real Impact
Breakthrough perspectives and methods for transforming our understanding and experience of health, illness and wellbeing
Our radical thinking and methods deploy a breakthrough perspective on lived experience, challenge status quo thinking, capture original insights, and facilitate impactful learning, design and value-creation ... in any applied health or wider experience context ... anywhere.
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Transform real lived experiences
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Transforming the real experience of UK armed forces veterans living with chronic pain
This major report presents Umio’s concepts and qualitative research into UK armed forces veteran experiences with chronic pain. It is one deliverable from our 12-month project with the UK Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA).
A critique of the social determinants of health framework
Despite almost universal agreement on the importance of addressing the social determinants of health, the dominant logic and frameworks for doing so suffer from some important limitations. In this paper, we offer a critique and alternative.
The creation of concrete real experience: Perception, affect, duration and emotion
In this paper, we explain the nature, formation, and differentiation of concrete real experience. It defines affect and how it differs from emotion, and explains a process for how real lived experiences form, differ and persist.
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