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Cathy Treadaway
Cathy Treadaway is professor emeritus at Cardiff Metropolitan University and research director of HUG by LAUGH Ltd. She is an experienced design researcher, artist, educator and writer. Cathy’s research examines creative practice, playfulness and well-being, and she works with artists, designers and industry to explore how materials, making and technology can help create a better world. In 2016, Cathy developed Compassionate Design, an approach to help guide design for people living with advanced dementia. In the last ten years she has led two major government funded research projects investigating design for people living with dementia. She is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of design for dementia in her current role as a judge for the Longitude Prize.
Contact: Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Western Avenue, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YB, Wales, UK.