Even when amongst friends and family, people who suffer from unrecognisable seizure types may find conversations difficult, because when their hearing, sight and cognitive processes are affected by a seizure, those around them cannot see the seizure and so do not modify or pause the conversation appropriately.

Gristock 2014

publications

The Health Benefits of Three Wheels, British Medical Journal, 2 Jan 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5192

The Seizure-Alert Cane: Patent application GB201413617D0 2014

Piracetam, Neuro Fuel™ and the ethics of ‘cognitive enhancement’, Essay submitted to the Hastings Centre Report 2009.

‘Patients: a real virtue in biomedical innovation’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 April, 1998. 

projects

The Get-Help-Bracelet: SMS with geolocation

The e-Reader page turner; for those with upper limb weakness and other conditions.

Team Helpilepsy, Hack Epilepsy at UCB Brussels, 2015

The Seizure-Alert Cane: Patent application GB201413617D0 [for dissemination of idea]

awards

Winner, “Hack Epilepsy” at UCB Brussels (2015) with Team Helpilepsy

Question: what would a course on co-design look like, if the students were patient users, not designers? How could the answers to this question improve our current thinking about the teaching of design and social entrepreneurship?