ABOUT
We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers who love to co-design digital health technologies! We developed this methodological toolkit to help all those who work in the digital health space to find useful mindsets, methods, tools and theories along with an implementation and evaluation framework that you can help you create digital health products and services with patients, carers, the public, and healthcare professionals so that we get better quality technologies in healthcare.
OUR TEAM
Our team includes researchers from King's College London and the University of Manchester who are passionate about digital health co-design. We have a mix of clinical, technical, research and public involvement expertise.
DR SIOBHAN O'CONNOR
Principal Investigator / Lead
Dr Siobhán O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at Western University, Canada and is a Liaison to the United Nations for Sigma Nursing. She leads the digital health co-design toolkit and is passionate about all things digital!
PROFESSOR SUE KIRK
Co-investigator
Professor Sue Kirk is Professor of Child Health at the University of Manchester. Her research interests relate to the experiences and support needs of children/young people with long-term/life-limiting conditions and their families and she specialises in co-designing interventions with children, young people and their families.
PROFESSOR EMMA STANMORE
Co-investigator
Professor Emma Stanmore is Professor of Older Adult Health at the University of Manchester. She has over 25 years combined experience in healthcare, research and teaching with a particular focus on health innovation and the promotion of healthy ageing.
DR MENGYING ZHANG
Research Assistant in Digital Health
Dr Mengying Zhang is a Research Assistant in Digital Health at King's College London. She has a multidisciplinary background with bachelor’s degrees in both nursing and and finance. Her research interests mainly focus on the development and evaluation of digital interventions to improve the quality of life of patients and the public.
DR PAULINE WHELAN
Co-Investigator
Dr Pauline Whelan is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and the Academic and Technical Lead for the Digital Health Software Team the university. With a background in computer science she has expertise in human computer interaction (HCI) encompassing a range of digital design methodologies.
DR ALAN DAVIES
Co-investigator
Dr Alan Davies is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester with a background in computer science and nursing. He has experience working as a software engineer/app developer in industry and now employs data science and research software engineering techniques with designing and developing digital health technologies.
MR DAVID WOODCOCK
Co-investigator / PPIE Member
Dr David Woodcock is the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) member of the team and brings a wealth of lay researcher experience to co-designing digital health technologies having worked in the National Health Service (NHS) for many years in a variety of roles and is now a patient advocate.
CHARLOTTE BOATMAN
Research Assistant in Digital Health
Charlotte Boatman was a Research Assistant in Digital Health on the team for 6 months before starting her PhD at King's College London. She has a keen interest in co-producing health interventions with people with long-term conditions and is pursuing her doctoral studies in the field of autism research.