Enquiry
Research & evaluation interests
Why do standard explanations sometimes fail, and what would a more context-aware account of health and behaviour look like? This page collects open questions rather than finished answers.
Open questions
Areas of enquiry
- Dietetics in primary care: roles, pathways and outcomes
- Behaviour understood in context rather than as willpower
- Perceived safety, threat and adaptive capacity in health
- Health communication and how explanations land
- Digital and experimental tools as ways of testing ideas
How the work is done
Mostly service evaluation and practice-based enquiry rather than formal research programmes: questions tend to come from clinics and services first, then get taken apart properly. Work in progress is shared openly rather than held back until it is tidy.
Outputs will be listed here as they are confirmed.
A current strand
Digital tools & human–computer interaction
An interest in how people understand, navigate and act on information through digital tools — particularly where interface design, behaviour, context and health intersect. Building apps and websites has become a practical way of exploring those questions: what reduces friction, what makes an explanation land, and how design can support rather than obstruct action.
There is an emerging overlap here with Biology of Safety: an interface is part of the context a person is acting within, and can either add cognitive load and uncertainty or create clarity and a sense of agency. That connection is still being worked out rather than settled.
Biology of Safety
The framework most of this enquiry currently orbits around.