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Nadia Beyzaei

Sessional Faculty, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media

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Education:

Master of Research in Healthcare & Design
BSc, Life Sciences & Mathematics

Bio

Nadia Beyzaei is a researcher, designer, educator, and health design consultant. She addresses healthcare challenges through behavioural science and design research, communication design and service design strategy. She is Principal Designer at Bettr, leading initiatives to advance equitable healthcare. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences + Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, a Communication Design Certificate from ECU and a Master of Research in Healthcare + Design from the Royal College of Art.

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Research Interests

Nadia’s research explores how participatory design and communication design can drive health system innovation and improve health literacy. At B.C. Children’s Hospital Research Institute, she works to advance behavioural health research and accessible care pathways for children with autism, Down syndrome and intellectual disabilities. Her work applies human-centred design to translate complex medical information into practical, patient-centred resources. Her current projects focus on service design for healthcare innovation, knowledge translation design strategy and visual communication techniques that enhance health literacy. Through collaboration with clinicians, researchers and communities, she applies design as a strategic lever for systemic change, fostering more inclusive and responsive healthcare experiences.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Graduate Studies Design GSMD 511 26/SP

Description

The discourse within and about methods in design has become a highly active and fertile field. Students will enter into the discourse about practice through exposure to the theoretical literature, as well as through the research about designing. The objective will be to develop a personal capacity to use design methods systematically to generate superior insight and understanding of problem spaces and solution potentials from both the need side and the affordance side. The student will learn to merge design methods within their thesis project work plan. Familiarity with the range of approaches (methodology) will permit the student to develop the particular framework, tools and procedures (methods) that can realize the type of knowledge he or she is pursuing. The development of these means will flow directly into the end deliverables that constitute the student's program, in particular the thesis project and its exposition. The design methods developed in this course describe the path that the student is taking in the thesis project. The writing and diagramming of that path will be a major part of the written exposition that complements studio production in the mediums of choice.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Graduate Studies Design GSMD 550 26/SP

Description

This directed studies topics module/studio is intended to support first year Master of Design students working on self-directed projects and contribute to early stage development of their graduate studies thesis prior to Advancement Review. The course will support students designing for research or professional leadership contexts. Within the course, students may work on interdisciplinary industry and research-sponsored projects, or personal projects that consider how design can explore and address social based concerns, and take on innovative material practice challenges. A focus will be placed on developing: skills, design research methodologies, salient community engagement. The course will provide a forum for critical design-focused conversations, guest critiques, and collaboration amongst interdisciplinary students working on related projects. Students in this course will be expected to be self-directed and will begin by establishing their own project and specific learning objectives within the course.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.