About this Event
Health and wellbeing in the workplace has become an increasingly important issue in recent years as we realise the impact it can make on productivity and indirectly the costs to national health services. The pandemic COVID 19 just emphasises this fact even more.
TWR is a research community founded by Dr Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek at Eindhoven University that carries out research internationally on the factors that affect health and wellbeing using a transdisciplinary approach which introduces data from the fields of work psychology, medicine, design and planning for example. It seeks to not only use reliable known knowledge but to seek new concepts and shape new ideas which can help planners, designers and building owners to shape their workplaces to let people thrive and flourish within them.
This webinar will address what the research needs are. The questions are what do we know but what do we not know? What do we need to know? How can research answer these questions?
Speakers:
Nicola Gillen, Director Occupier Business at Cushman & Wakefield, What are the unanswered questions?
Nigel Oseland, Workplace Consultant, Lessons from Studies and Research in Psychology
Piers MacNaughton , View and Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, How the office affects employee health and performance
Valerie Mace, University of the Arts, What are the research priorities for sensory design of the workplace?
Moderator: Derek Clements-Croome, Chair of CIBSE IB Group , Co-coordinator for CIB Commission W098 on Intelligent and Responsive Buildings and Board Member for TWR
This Webinar was held on 7 October 2020 with over 100 participants.
