Speaker: Jane Carthey
Jane’s current research is part of her Doctorate in Creative Industries. Jane’s topic is Inter-professional collaboration and the design of health care projects (i.e. multi-disciplinary user group consultation) and her first project developed and administered an online survey of user group participants across Australia and NZ. This looked at how well-informed participants were regarding the process, and what they thought about its outcomes; it also investigated their definitions of “design quality” and “project success” and how the two concepts are linked in the mind of participants and also how they think their clients think about these issues.

Jane will talk about the outcomes of the survey at this event and where her research is heading including; looking at participatory design processes – drawing on experiences from urban planning, govt policy development and many other settings. The next stage of the research will include interviewing clients and funding bodies to understand what they think they are trying to achieve from the user group process, how they measure whether they are achieving what they are setting out to do……

Jane recently presented the outcomes of her research to Stefano Scalzo and members of the Victorian Health and Human Services Building Authority who have indicated their interest in participating in the next stage of her research.

Speaker: Stefano Scalzo, Director Planning and Development, Victorian Health and Human Services Building Authority, Department of Health and Human Services
Stefano will offer his perspectives of the user group process /  the issues raised/discussed in Jane’s’ research, and will facilitate further discussion with attendees on this topic.
The session will conclude with discussion and networking drinks.

About our Speakers
Jane Carthey:
Jane Carthey has worked as a health architect for over 30 years on projects in Australia (NSW, Qld mainly), also in New Zealand, Niue and East Timor. For several years she was a Director of two architectural practices – Carthey Project Strategies and Fulton Trotter Carthey. From 2002-2011, she worked at UNSW managing the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines project, and from 2006-2010 she was the Director of the Centre for Health Assets Australasia in the Faculty of the Built Environment when the project was taken back in house by HI NSW.

Since 2011, Jane has worked on various projects including Christchurch Hospital redevelopment (Katoa Architects/Thinc Health), Sunshine Coast University Hospital (Rice Daubney), Westmead Hospital Redevelopment (HDR Rice Daubney) and most recently on the inhouse commissioning team at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney. In 2016, she commenced a Doctorate in Creative Industries at QUT.

In 2011, Jane was one of the founders of the Australian Health Design Council and was its inaugural Chair until handing over to Kate Copeland at the end of 2016.

Stefano Scalzo:
Stefano is an architect with over 20 years executive experience working in public sector projects across Australia with particular expertise in the design of contemporary healthcare environments.  Stefano overseas the origination process of all Victorian health infrastructure projects inclusive of all service and capital planning leading into the development of Financial Business Cases.  In 2015 Stefano was awarded a prestigious 50th Anniversary Churchill Fellowship to research the design of high amenity mental health facilities developed over multiple levels