Researchers in Conversation
Revealing the lives of researchers from across the UK and Ireland; finding out more about their chosen field, what they have discovered, their challenges, highlights and what they might do next. At Tracksys Ltd, we like to understand the researchers we support and we thought interviewing them would be a great way of exploring this. We also thought you might enjoy hearing their stories too.
Researchers in Conversation
Dr Sean Jenkins on Product Design and Human Factors
•
Caroline Norbury
•
Season 1
•
Episode 3
Dr Sean Jenkins is the Principal Innovation Fellow for the Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre at the University of Wales Trinity St David. Sean talks about how the centre provides an evaluation service to industry through research both in and out of the lab, enabling the design for health-related products to be further developed. He highlights how applied research can improve the lives of people living with health conditions. Sean also reveals his career journey from a design course and how taking on new interests can be challenging both from a knowledge and time perspective.