HEALTH / CARE

'Rob Young gives a voice to the voiceless'

Rob Young has spent the past 10 years helping NHS and Social Care leaders to communicate in a way that is warm, welcoming and accessible to all.

He has worked with every stratum of society from heart surgeons to the homeless, terminally ill lung patients to young Cancer survivors.

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Rob was part of the Heart n Soul / Wellcome Trust team who won the Inaugural Calouste Gulbenkian award in 2021, for a project in which Disabled people led their own research. It won first prize in a competitive field of over 260 arts organisations and charities.

Rob is proud to be the Patron of the Arts & Minds (mental health) network in Leeds, who hosted the first arts festival in England to be run by an NHS Trust. It featured over 100 disabled artists.

Rob was a Faculty Associate and Writer-in-Residence at NHS Research & Development North West. Working together, they won the coveted NWC Award for ‘Most Innovative NHS Team’. Rob also gives regular communication workshops for other healthcare entities including 12 cohorts for AQuA and his favourite charity, The Elizabeth Casson Trust.

Rob was the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Researcher Magazine, an NHS publication read in 54 countries. He co-wrote a series of wellbeing guides for the with Dr Lynne Goodacre and is co-author of various academic reports.

Rob has helped academics, clinicians and AHP’s communicate on a wide range of issues from arthritis to obesity, Cancer to cleft palates. He has researched ‘sex and disability’ for Channel 4 and 18th century surgery for the BBC. Rob’s play about Proteus syndrome, sold out the Young Vic theatre for the duration of its run.

Rob was a core team member of the Failure research project at the University of Lancaster. He spent four years working on a project to help children with chronic, complex pain with Professor Bernie Carter of Edge Hill University and is a member of the Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network. He is currently working on his fifth healthanimation with the illustrator Mister Munro.