StrathLab: A Living Lab at Strathclyde
Co-creating Better Lives
STRATHLab is an ecosystem for the entire community at the University of Strathclyde and also for our citizens, commercial, community, and civic partners.
We are a ‘Living Lab’ - using inclusive co-design to identify and prioritise what matters to the people of Glasgow and beyond. We can help you co-create solutions that solve real-world problems, and generate evidence of impact in inclusive and socially progressive ways.
We are based in the heart of the city of Glasgow City Innovation District but our real Living Lab has no walls - it is our city, our citizens, and our communities."
Helping innovate and scale solutions in the health and care sector
When you collaborate with StrathLAB, we bring all of this experience and enthusiasm to your real-world challenges.
We’re ready to listen, collaborate and solve these problems together.
Our mission
Translating health and care innovation into equitable and accessible care for all
We focus on including and engaging with seldom-heard voices and implementing health and care solutions for people to live and thrive in their homes and communities.
If you are a member of the public and you want to get involved in co-creating better lives then please get in touch with us by email - citizenscience
Here
We have a collection of state-of-the-art research and innovation facilities including design space, labs, and innovation zones. These ranges from Virtual Reality lab space to modelling ‘real-world’ spaces such as GP surgeries, pharmacies, or rooms around the home. Examples include our Fabrication Lab, The Centre for Co-Creation of Rehabilitation Technology and the Laboratory for Innovation in Autism.
There
Across the city and into our rural communities, we hold satellite labs, community co-creation events, and create spaces to take our research outside the traditional lab and into the places where solutions will be used, and benefits realised.
Everywhere
We are based in the heart of the city of Glasgow City Innovation District but our Living Lab has no walls. It's not just what we do it is HOW we do it. Using citizen science and Open and Public Engagement we thrive on being led by the lived experiences of a range of seldom heard communities and voices.
Strategic partners
Our Living Lab partners:
- NHS Lanarkshire
- The Golden Jubilee Hospital
- Glasgow City Innovation District
- The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre
We have a well-established health and care ecosystem that enables us to work with NHS partners, health tech companies, and across Glasgow's Innovation District to ensure we are addressing real on-the-ground issues and realising impact for our partners and our citizens.
We are a member of ENOLL.
Our projects
Our Living Lab is problem-led. Our projects show how we co-design with a wide range of citizens and with industry and health and care partners to prioritise what matters first, and then validate so that solutions and services work and make a difference in the real world.
We can help you produce innovative, impactful, socially progressive, and inclusive solutions. We specialise in generating robust real-world evidence for new services and products helping you build business cases so that new solutions will be adopted at scale and actually improve people's lives in meaningful ways.
What we do
Co-Design
Our living lab is a safe playground for exploring ideas and co-designing and involving citizens, companies and civic partners to address what matters to people and what problems are worth solving through a variety of face to face and virtual methods. We specialise in working with people who are often excluded or don’t have access to research and innovation. Together, we achieve real results that matter most to the people who can benefit from them.
Demonstration and Simulation
Our Living Lab offers real-world test beds (for example studies in real-world settings and robust demonstration and simulation environments) to evaluate solutions so that they can be adopted faster making us ‘A place of Useful Innovation’. Our expertise spans across our seven strategic research themes: Energy, Ocean, Air and Space, Health and Wellbeing, Advanced Manufacturing and Materials, Measurement, Digital and Enabling Technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, People, Place and Policy.
DataLake
We have a growing repository of anonymised citizen-generated data to inform our research.
Upskilling
We provide up to date real world training opportunities for companies, practitioners, and citizens in a variety of subjects from co-design, to data analytics.
Meet the team
Dr Marilyn Lennon
Marilyn Lennon is a Professor in Digital Health and Wellness in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.
Her background is in usability, user experience and the design, development and evaluation of interactive technologies for health and care. She is experienced in both co-production techniques and controlled usability studies. She has led several national health innovation programmes where she has developed and conducted real-world evaluations of technologies in both home and NHS-based contexts.
Dr Kieren Egan
Kieren is a core member and Research Fellow within the Digital Health and Wellness team at the University of Strathclyde.
Dr Egan's interests are to build both national and international professional connections around the themes of healthy ageing, and digital health, and to develop excellence in digital health across ideation to bridge digital divides and support those most in need to achieve the public health ideals of healthy ageing.
