Health
Senior Associate
Helen Hamlyn Centre
Royal College of Art
Jonathan has a background in design and engineering, with a first degree in Mechanical Engineering at Birmingham University. Since completing his Masters in Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art in 2003, Jonathan has had an interest in medical design, a field in which he now works.
He has since designed a powered paediatric wheelchair for Sunrise Medical, meeting user needs and designing a working prototype. Jonathan has worked in industry, and is currently at the Helen Hamlyn Centre. As a research associate, he has provided GlaxoSmithKline with design guidance on its pharmaceutical packs – directly influencing the European pack style.
He is working on a new resuscitation trolley for the National Patient Safety Agency, which has won two Medical Futures Innovation Awards and is currently being finalised for manufacture. His research interests include design for patient safety and inclusive design, and he chaired a session at Include 2007 conference at the Royal College of Art.
Senior Associate
Helen Hamlyn Centre
Royal College of Art
Maja is an industrial design engineer with a Masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University. Her design experience ranges from medical devices and consumer products to factory layouts and processes.
Maja has won a number of awards including first prize in the Helen Hamlyn Design for our Future Selves Awards 2005 and she was also shortlisted for British Female Inventor of the Year 2006. In addition to being a Helen Hamlyn Research Associate, Maja has provided consulting services to several companies, including healthcare and medical devices consultancy Pearson Matthews.
Senior Research Fellow
Patient Safety and Healthcare
Helen Hamlyn Centre
Royal College of Art
Ed Matthews joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre in February 2007 to support its growing focus on inclusive design for healthcare and patient safety. His role is to contribute to development of the centre’s strategy in this area, build and mentor the research team, strengthen the centre’s networks and engage industrial partners in development projects.
Ed is highly experienced in product development in a broad range of sectors, and has specialised in medical devices and healthcare products since 1990. He has a track record of combining different working cultures and technologies to establish new approaches to development. He has also pioneered the provision of technical expertise, design-for-manufacture, materials selection and CADCAM capabilities within industrial design consultancy.
His commercial experience includes setting and implementing strategy as partner and technical director of design company Pearson Matthews, and working in senior consulting roles for PA Technology and PA Consulting Group. He has been a visiting tutor at Central St Martin’s School of Art and Design. He has won the Overall and the Mechanical Design Prize in the CADCAM International Awards, and the British Steel Melchett Award. He has spoken at, and chaired, conferences for CADCAM and Medical Device Technology, and been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Medical Device Technology magazine. His first degree was a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering with French from the University of Bath, and his second degree was the MDesRCA in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art.