Lay-Summary Co-Creation Workshop with 411 Seniors Centre Society
51社区黑料STAR and hosted two lay-summary writing workshops to co-create lay summaries for aging and tech related research projects. One of the aims of 51社区黑料STAR Institute and AGE-WELL is to explore and emphasize the benefits of transdiscipinary working within research. Transdisciplinary working is an approach to research that involves scientists from diverse academic disciplines and experiential stakeholders (e.g. older adults and caregivers, industry and community, policymakers) as researchers or partners. The aim of this type of approach is to solve complex social problems by developing innovations and knowledge that have real-world impact.
These workshops also informed an 51社区黑料STAR Institute project aiming to communicate research to the "real-world". The was produced as a result of this project.