About
With a rising population across the globe, many societies are struggling to meet healthcare demand. Digital health care interventions are key to tackling this issue and help to enhance the efficiency, delivery and security of services to patients, and supporting care in the community.
But with so many new digital technologies available and the immediate access to massive data sets how can we harness this information to ensure it makes a real difference to society? And how do we overcome the challenges of privacy and personal data protection?
Southampton scientists across medicine and electronics and computer science are combining machine learning, genome sequencing and other computational methods to develop new digital health interventions to help healthcare professionals and patients to manage illness and promote health and wellbeing. This includes both hardware and software solutions including using Internet of Things smart devices, wearable devices and monitoring sensors.
Our teams are also using digital health technologies to analyse already available data sets to establish trends of behaviour and decision patterns with the aim of predicting future healthcare needs as well as examining the role data protection plays in this ever-expanding research field.
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People, projects and publications
People
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Doctor Neil J. Gostling
Associate ProfessorEvolutionary Biology
Palaeobiology
Molecular Biology
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.J.Gostling@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 8141Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Neil White
Professor of Intelligent Sensor SystemsMedical sensors
Intelligent sensor systemS
Energy harvesting
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: nmw@ecs.soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 3765Address: B59, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Doctor Nela Nikolic
Lecturer in MicrobiologyRoles of accessory genetic elements in bacterial resilience
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.Nikolic@soton.ac.uk -
Doctor Nic Bury
Associate Professor in Natural SciencesNic Bury's research integrates molecular, physiological and toxicological techniques wi
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.R.Bury@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 (0) 23 8059 6630Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH -
Professor Nicci Campbell
Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise)* Bilateral and bimodal cochlear implant fittings: optimisation and outcomes on real-li
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.G.Campbell@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 5884Address: B19, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Nicholas Harvey
Director & ProfessorLifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis and fragility fractures
Email: nch1x07@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2380590506Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Nicholas Kelley
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social PsychologySocial and Affective Neuroscience
The Self
Self-Regulation
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.J.Kelley@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 9399Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Nick Curzen
Professor of Interventional CardiologyEmail: N.Curzen@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381205523Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Professor Nick Evans
Associate Dean (Research) & Professor of BioengineeringAccepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.D.Evans@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8120 5260Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD
True interdisciplinary research, in which collaborators share the challenges and strengths of different domains is more than just applying one domain’s techniques to another area’s problems. Interdisciplinary research opens up new and exciting research opportunities in both domains by changing the shape of the problem and highlighting why existing approaches are not fit for use.
Related research institutes, centres and groups
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Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering
Our group brings together engineers and computer scientists to discover new approaches to diagnose and manage health and medical conditions. -
Institute for Life Sciences
We bring together interdisciplinary researchers with expertise across the themes of health and medicine, living systems, disruptive life technologies, and insights through data