Illustrating two families’ stories of preterm birth
Alongside our scientific work, communicating with the wider world about the topics of preterm birth and brain injury has been one of our focuses in PREMSTEM. Growing Together – A Shared Journey from the NICU to Now is an illustrated story created by members of the consortium and the PCAB in collaboration with professional illustrators. Sophia and Adam were born preterm. In this story, told through their parents’ eyes, we discover moments in their lives since they bonded in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and learn about support networks based in the care of teachers and the guidance of medical experts. Through the power of illustration, our aim has been to create a realistic story to help families and caregivers to understand how preterm birth may impact their lives. We hope it will help families to understand how life might look when a child is born too soon and serve as a tool for…
Our co-creation journey comes to an end
In our final workshop, we co-designed solutions to two more issues which came up in interviews with parents
Co-creating the final steps of the roadmap
The roadmap prototype aims to improve the clinical trials experience for families
Final co-creation workshop of 2023
In this workshop we popped on our magical hats and continued to co-design a parent journey roadmap to aid communications and improve the experience of a clinical trial.
Co-creating the parent journey
In this session we began building a parent journey roadmap, taking into account interview insights.
Insights from co-creation interviews
In 2023 we have been learning more about clinical trial experiences through interviews with key stakeholders.
A Parent’s Embrace: a powerful therapy
This year’s World Prematurity Day theme is all about promoting the benefits of skin-to-skin contact between parents and baby from day one
Using co-creation to prepare for stakeholder interviews
We’re already halfway through our co-creation workshops and getting ready to interview stakeholders on a one-on-one basis
Cake tins, plants and a dinosaur – playing with household objects to tackle our co-creation challenge
Imagination and storytelling were the name of the game in our latest workshop
Defining the outcomes to achieve in response to the co-creation challenge
Creating one-liner statements and writing newspaper headlines were some of the activities in our latest co-creation workshop.