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.
Transforming chronic respiratory disease care
Groundbreaking sticker could monitor breathing and help save lives.
People, projects and publications
People
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Doctor Nela Nikolic
Lecturer in MicrobiologyRoles of accessory genetic elements in bacterial resilience
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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 6630 -
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 5884 -
Professor Nicholas Harvey
Director & ProfessorLifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis and fragility fractures
Email: nch1x07@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2380590506 -
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 9399 -
Professor Nick Curzen
Professor of Interventional CardiologyEmail: N.Curzen@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381205523 -
Professor Nick Evans
Associate Dean (Research) & Professor of BioengineeringAccepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.D.Evans@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8120 5260 -
Professor Nicola Englyst
Professor of Medical EducationMedical education projects
Patient-centred language in social media
Email: N.A.Englyst@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381206925 -
Doctor Nicole Prior
LecturerAccepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: N.R.J.Prior@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 4222
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