Academic Publications [Google Scholar]
tag: design, psychology, housing
- Flexible Housing is important for basic resident psychological needs
In this paper, we established the importance of housing that has transformable design features as well as allows residents to make changes to their homes on residents’ fundamental Psychological human needs in the UK.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001063
Learn more about the project here
tag: design, psychology, housing
2. Privacy regulation helps manage objective and subjective crowding at home and its impacts on Aggression
During Covid-19 Lockdown in the UK, residents reported their levels of agression, crowding (objective and subjective) and how well they can regulate privacy. This paper examined the relationships between these with implications for housinf design.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424001063
Learn more about the project here
tag: design, decision-making, housing
3. We cannot design for an ageing population when we are still ‘othering’ it
We used serious gaming to get older adults, carers, housing professionals to dissect their perceptions and decision making about rightly housing our ageing population and their needs.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/3/304
Learn more about the project here
tag: design, decision-making, housing
4. How can we scale good, feasible, impactful housing design features for cognitive ageing in the UK?
This paper presents a Theory of Change for scaling, taking a realist review lens – i.e., examining what works, for whom, and in what contexts. This is grounded in bottom-up insights from older adults and professionals which we need more of!
-Design details play a major role in supporting people to live well at home – many can be implemented easily and at no extra cost.
-Requires changes in practice and policy but alongside greater awareness and knowledge-sharing among residents and stakeholders.
-Flexible, adaptable, and future-proofed homes are essential to meeting the needs of an ageing population!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291125009167
Learn more about the project here
tag: design, psychology, housing
5. What design features, objects, and spaces at home supports residents sense of Autonomy, Competence, Relatedness, and Happiness?
This preprint (yet to be peer-reviewed) makes the much needed and direct associations between housing design features and resident’s basic psychological needs which can be easily used or applied in practice and design of new homes for better wellbeing.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7tkqc_v1
Design resources for Public
- Small Space Hacks Event
We hosted multiple public events with residents/council tenants facing overcrowding and looking to improve their housing using storage, perceptual, and temporal ‘hacks’. Please see the slide deck created for the event below to broaden resident’s thinking on how to use their homes creatively, effectively, and in an enjoyable way.
Guidelines and briefs
tag: co-design, behaviour change, hospital
- Clarifying necessary and unnecessary use of Non-Sterile Gloves in Operating Theatres
Non-sterile gloves (NSGs) provide protection from blood and bodily fluid but are often used unnecessarily for tasks and behaviours. As part of the Green OT project, we created a 2-page guideline document in collaboration with Infection Prevention and Control team at NHS Imperial NHS Healthcare Trust to clearly define when it is necessary to use NSGs and when performing a task barehanded or gelling after is safe.
This resource was used to successfully pilot a behaviour change intervention to reduce unnecessary non-sterile gloves use at two operating theatres of St Mary’s hospital, London.
tag: co-design, housing
2. An interactive design brief for cognitive ageing friendly housing design
An important aspect of being able to ‘age-in-place’ is making our homes supportive of our physical as well as cognitive decline in abilities. The DesHCA project (2024) by the University of Stirling outlined design principles and guidelines that can help people explore how they can make their homes more suitable for them for longer.
other related resources:
- General design principles for a cognitive age friendly home
- Common application of these principles in a checklist format
tag: co-design, mobility
3. General Public and stakeholder’s perspectives on what makes New Mobility Services inclusive
Other peer-reviewed write-ups
tag: design, psychology, housing
- Why flexibility is important for resident psychological wellbeing, a blog for Housing Studies Association 2023
2. Summary of my doctoral research on flexible housing for wellbeing for International-Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Bulletin 2023
https://iaps-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Bulletin-51.pdf
3. Serious Gaming as a methodology to explore home modifications in older person housing, a blog for Housing Studies Association 2025
https://www.housing-studies-association.org/articles/serious-gaming-for-home-improvement
4. ‘Place-making’ in residential settings using flexible home design and home modifications, an article for Katte, a research journal by the Wodeyar Centre for Architecture, India 2025
https://wcfa.ac.in/annual-research-journal-katte/mobile/index.html
Designing BUILT environments for psychological wellbeing 