ICFHS congratulations Dr Jude Page on the award of her PhD

Jude Page recently completed a multidisciplinary PhD with the International Centre for Future Health Systems (ICFHS) examining a novel form of imagery, exploratory visuals developed through her work on person centred assessment and care planning.  The research builds on visual communication theory, demonstrating how well designed visuals can communicate complex ideas quickly and effectively across diverse populations, reflecting the brain’s capacity for fast, holistic and affective processing. It examines the role of visuals in health education and promotion and provides a framework to guide their selection and design according to purpose and audience. It also advances visual elicitation as a participatory research method through a practical tool, My Story Cards, which integrates cognitive, narrative and needs based approaches with evidence informed understandings of human needs. This approach enables deeper insight into how people experience and make sense of their wellbeing, while accounting for the social and structural conditions that shape it. The research was undertaken under the supervision of Associate Professor Margo Barr, Professor Theo van Leeuwen, Associate Professor Timothy Broady and Professor Evelyne de Leeuw.