Professor Emmanuel Tsekleves

Professor in Global Health Design Innovation, Co-Director of Future Cities Research Institute

Research 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
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Developing Community-Led Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance: Building a One Health Approach in Low and Middle Income Countries
01/06/2020 → 31/05/2021
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ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/12/2021
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ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2021
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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
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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
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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
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Proto-Policy
01/06/2015 → 31/08/2015
Research

Ageing Playfully
01/02/2015 → 31/05/2015
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Behaviours that Stick: Exploring emotional design of sustainable behaviours that stick
01/04/2014 → 31/12/2014
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Active Parks
01/01/2014 → 31/08/2014
Research

Numbers that Matter
01/11/2013 → 31/07/2014
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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 → …
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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

Invited Keynote Speech at the Victoria and Albert Museum - The Sackler Conference 2015: Art, Design and New Technology for Health
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