Professor Emmanuel Tsekleves
Professor in Global Health Design Innovation, Co-Director of Future Cities Research InstituteResearch Overview
Professor Emmanuel Tsekleves leads Design for Global Health at ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University. Driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, my research focuses on tackling community health challenges across the world. He is currently working on understanding cleaning practices and driving infections from homes in Ghana; developing health and care policies for senior citizens in Malaysia and in promoting seafood across Europe through novel packaging design.
The development of a novel Lancaster University - Sunway University Staff Exchange Scheme (LU-SU SES)
01/03/2025 → 28/02/2027
Research
Making the Dust Fly: Creating a million plus conversations in Ghana on home cleaning and superbugs
01/03/2023 → 29/02/2024
Research
WASHable II Impact Accelerator: Participatory design and community engagement Network on WASH in Lusophone and Francophone African Countries
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2023
Research
The Future of Human Reproduction: new agendas and methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences
22/04/2022 → 21/07/2026
Research
The Future of Human Reproduction: new agendas and methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences
22/04/2022 → 22/07/2025
Research
GCRF and Newton Consolidation Accounts Lancaster University
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2023
Research
IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research
Ice Box Challenge - Santiago Chile
01/11/2021 → 12/11/2021
Other
Healthier Fleetwood
01/06/2021 → 30/06/2022
Research
LatamHaus: sustainable, healthy and affordable homes
01/04/2021 → 31/07/2021
Research
Developing Community-Led Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance: Building a One
Health Approach in Low and Middle Income Countries
01/06/2020 → 31/05/2021
Research
ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/12/2021
Research
ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2021
Research
SeaFood-Age: Smart and eco-innovative seafood processes and products for healthy ageing
01/05/2019 → 01/05/2022
Research
ProtoPolicyAsia: Employing speculative design in enabling governments and community groups to imagine the fuure implications of health policy initiatives in creative ways
01/02/2019 → 30/01/2020
Research
Understanding the home as a source of infection of AMR bacteria carried by dust by exploring hygiene practices in different home environments in Ghana
22/01/2018 → 20/04/2021
Research
SODA Plus: Realizing Data Together
01/07/2017 → 31/12/2019
Research
Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
Research
Proto-Policy
01/06/2015 → 31/08/2015
Research
Ageing Playfully
01/02/2015 → 31/05/2015
Research
Behaviours that Stick: Exploring emotional design of sustainable behaviours that stick
01/04/2014 → 31/12/2014
Research
Active Parks
01/01/2014 → 31/08/2014
Research
Numbers that Matter
01/11/2013 → 31/07/2014
Research
Examination of how approaches to prduct design differ nationally - RADMA PhD Bursary
01/10/2013 → 30/09/2014
Research
Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change
01/11/2011 → 30/04/2015
Research
DAMN IT. A Brazilian-UK resilience research network on developing a GCRF Urgency bid.
01/01/1900 → …
Research
GCRF Global IAA Institutional Award
01/01/1900 → …
Research
DRS 2024 BOSTON
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
DRS 2024 BOSTON
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The future is a work in progress at the Festival of Futures
Symposium
Launch of the Little Book of Design for Health in Latin America
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
EDUCATORS IMPACT ACCELERATOR WORKSHOP OF THE DUST BUNNY PROJECT IN GHANA
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
POLICYMAKERS AND COLLABORATORS IMPACT ACCELERATOR WORKSHOP OF THE DUST BUNNY PROJECT IN GHANA
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Bipolar Risk-taking behaviour workshop
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Speculative Diseño
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
International Forum on Community Engagement on Global Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Angola
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
TEA Talks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Ageing, Environment and Sustainability
Participation in conference - Public
The Little Book of Healthier Fleetwood NHS Webinar
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
International Forum on Community Engagement on Global Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Cameroon
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Ice Box Challenge
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
LatamHaus: how to develop resilient neighbourhoods through the Passivhaus standard
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
LatamHaus: Passivhaus and the SDGs
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
LatamHaus: barriers and challenges for the Passivhaus adoption
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Design for Policy workshop series with UNU-IIGH
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Passivhaus Designer Course
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Realising Data Together Workshops
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
UK-Peru Workshop: Relationship between Food, Nutrition and Health
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Ageing Playfully Public Talk in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
SODA Co-designing Data Together
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Design Innovation for Dementia and Ageing Well
Invited talk
Sanus Homo Ludens: Playfulness in promoting healthier behaviours
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
TEDx Talk. Designing our Cities to be Playful: Playfulness in promoting healthier behaviours.
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Parkinson’s and Playfulness
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
AHRC (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Presentation title: Exploring the use of Design Fictions & Playful Design
Invited talk
Design in Healthcare: challenges and opportunities
Invited talk
AHRC (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Invited Public talk at the University of the 3rd Age Study day on Living well in later life - "Learn, Laugh, Live”
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Ageing Playfully
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Dementia Futures
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
The Foresight Programme (External organisation)
Other Membership
Invited talk at the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Parkinson’s UK during the Parkinson's Awareness Week 2015
Invited talk
Virtual reality: WiiTherapy
Invited talk
DSTL (External organisation)
Other Membership
International Journal of Design (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Qatar National Research Fund (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Multimedia Systems (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Croatian Science Foundation (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Hellenic Republic Ministry of Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Hellenic Republic Ministry of Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Hellenic Republic Ministry of Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Entertainment Computing (Journal)
Publication peer-review
The Design Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review
- DSI - Health
- Evaluation
- Imagination Lancaster
- School of Design
- Work and Health Forum