Visib-ill-ity: Progress and hope for women living with chronic illness

In this 60 minute webinar we will cover:

• Insights into our lived experience of chronic pain conditions and how this is connected to our professional practice
• Our observations and insights into how gender influences care
• The challenges and positive changes we’ve noticed in services over the years
• Our hopes and ideas about how health and related sectors could change to better support women with pain conditions

This event will be especially useful to people with an interest in lived experience, those working in healthcare and related industries and designers looking to collaborate with others or embody their own lived experience of chronic pain conditions.

Aishling Costello - Senior Design Strategist, Portable (She / Her)

Aishling has international strategic design and consulting experience and for the last 3 years has focused on working with communities from the health, mental health, aged care, social care and related sectors. Aishling specialises in human-centred design and research, co-design, systems design, data informed design and designing for digital systems and products. Aishling has a special interest in trauma informed and trauma responsive design.

Aishling has lived experience of Endometriosis.

Beth Hyland - Lead Design Strategist, Portable (She / Her)

Beth is a Strategic Design Lead at Portable, with over a decade of experience delivering a portfolio of 90+ design and innovation projects across a broad portfolio of sectors. Beth has a particular passion for work in health and mental health sectors. Her approach to problem solving draws heavily on co-design, systems thinking and strategic foresight approaches.

Beth has lived experience of Still’s disease and Type 1 diabetes.

Willhemina Wahlin - Senior Design Strategist, Portable (She / Her)

Willhemina (Willie) Wahlin (PhD) is a practice-led design researcher, facilitator and practitioner, working across the social innovation and higher education sectors for over 15 years. Willie is passionate about making a positive impact through design, engagement and communication. She is an advocate for a bottom-up approach to problem solving and building capacity at the grassroots level.

Willie has lived experience of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Thursday March 7, 12pm noon - 1pm AEDT.

A link to join the webinar will be provided to registered participants via email prior to the event starting on Thursday 7th of March, 2024.

After the panel discussion, attendees will be invited to stay for a Q&A session with the panellists for up to 15 mins, and a recording of the webinar will be distributed to all registered participants in the days after the event.

You're in luck. This webinar will be recorded and published as a video on the Portable website at a later date.

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Portable is a purpose-driven research, design, and technology B-Corp that works with Australian businesses, organisations, and government to drive transformational change that has a real impact on real people.

We are leaders in ethical human-centred design which means we make decisions based on thoughtful research and collaboration with people who have lived experience or who are most likely to be impacted by the products, services, technology, or policies being designed.

Our team consists of expert designers, researchers, strategists, analysts, and developers located across every state and territory in Australia.