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Dr N Verdezoto Dias, Dr Carolina Fuentes Toro, Dr Katarzyna Stawarz
Applications accepted all year round
Self-Funded PhD Students Only
About the Project
This project is in collaboration with the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University and the Institute of Nutritional Research in Lima, Peru
Dr Emily Rousham, Reader in Global Public Health
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/emily-rousham/
Prof Paula Griffiths, Professor of Population Health
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/paula-griffiths/
Hilary M Creed-Kanashiro, Institute of Nutritional Research, Peru
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8282-0835
Project Highlights:
- Apply co-design methods and prototyping techniques with community stakeholders (e.g., women, children, carers, healthcare professionals) to explore creative scenarios addressing the drivers of suboptimal infant and young children feeding practices.
- Examine the suitability of existing theoretical frameworks and guidelines for designing socio-technical health interventions in Peru
- Design and implement of socio-technical immersive/interactive digital health prototypes and evaluate their potential impact in enhancing caregivers and infants and young children experiences with complementary feeding practices
Maternal and infant health is one of the global public health concerns. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition (stunting, micronutrient deficiencies) and the increase of overweight and obesity represent a double burden of malnutrition that in particular impacts children and women in low and low-to- middle income countries. In Peru there is a high prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia, affecting 25% of Peruvian infants/young children. With an increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, Peru faces a nutritional double burden. There is limited research on understanding how the socio-cultural factors and feeding practices (e.g., early energy intake, types of food and dietary behaviours) influence obesity and overweight in infants and young children in Peru and what role digital health technologies can play to support complementary feeding and caregiver’s practices. COVID-19 has exacerbated the situation, especially among mothers and children from low-income communities and rural areas in Peru.
This PhD project aims to design and create innovative approaches, strategies and digital interventions to enhance complementary feeding practices in infants and young children as well as caregiver’s care practices in Peru. The project will involve user studies (e.g., online interviews and focus groups) as well as community engagement through different co-design workshops with multiple stakeholders to design, implement and evaluate socio-technical prototypes that can address the identified needs in relation to complementary feeding practices and caregiver’s challenges in Peru.
The project aligns with an MRC-funded UK-Peru project and will benefit from collaborating with a multidisciplinary group of researchers from Cardiff University and Loughborough University in the UK, the French National Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD) in France and the Nutrition Research Institute, the National University of San Marcos and the National University Hermilio Valdizan in Peru.
Academic criteria: A 2:1 Honours undergraduate degree or a master's degree, in computing or a related subject. Applicants with appropriate professional experience are also considered. Degree-level mathematics (or equivalent) is required for research in some project areas.
Applicants for whom English is not their first language must demonstrate proficiency by obtaining an IELTS score of at least 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6.0 in each skills component.
This project is open to students worldwide.
How to apply: This project is accepting applications all year round, however, if you are interested in applying for a PhD Scholarship, please visit our website to find out more about the Scholarships application deadline. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/programme/computer-science-and-informatics
In the funding field of your application, indicate “I am applying for 2021 PhD Scholarship in Computer Science and Informatics”, and specify the project title and supervisors of this project in the text box provided.
Apply online: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/programme/computer-science-and-informatics
For more information about this project, please contact Dr Verdezoto Dias, [Email Address Removed]
Funding Notes
This project is for Self-Funded Students.
Please note that a PhD Scholarship is available for entry 2021/22. If you are interested in applying for a PhD Scholarship, please follow the instructions available on our website: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/programme/computer-science-and-informatics
In the Funding field of your application, insert "I am applying for 2021 PhD Scholarship" and specify the project title and supervisor of this project in the fields provided.
Please note that a PhD Scholarship is available for entry 2021/22. If you are interested in applying for a PhD Scholarship, please follow the instructions available on our website: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research/programmes/programme/computer-science-and-informatics
In the Funding field of your application, insert "I am applying for 2021 PhD Scholarship" and specify the project title and supervisor of this project in the fields provided.
References
[1] Bentley, M. E., Johnson, S. L., Wasser, H., Creed-Kanashiro, H., Shroff, M., Fernandez Rao, S., & Cunningham, M. (2014). Formative research methods for designing culturally appropriate, integrated child nutrition and development interventions: an overview. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1308(1), 54-67.
[2] Daelmans, B., Ferguson, E., Lutter, C. K., Singh, N., Pachón, H., Creed-Kanashiro, H., ... & Pareja, R. (2013). Designing appropriate complementary feeding recommendations: tools for programmatic action. Maternal & child nutrition, 9, 116-130.
[3] Wardle, C. J., Green, M., Mburu, C. W., & Densmore, M. (2018). Exploring Co-Design with Breastfeeding Mothers. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 482).
[4] Schaefbauer, C. L., Khan, D. U., Le, A., Sczechowski, G., & Siek, K. A. (2015). Snack buddy: supporting healthy snacking in low socioeconomic status families. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1045-1057).
[5] Hwang, M. L., & Mamykina, L. (2017, May). Monster appetite: Effects of subversive framing on nutritional choices in a digital game environment. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4082-4096).
[6] Bomfim, M. C., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Nacke, L. E., & Wallace, J. R. (2020, April). Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
[7] Lukoff, K., Li, T., Zhuang, Y., & Lim, B. Y. (2018). Tablechat: mobile food journaling to facilitate family support for healthy eating. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1-28.
[8] Jiménez Rondinel, S. N., & Alcedo Fabian, C. J. (2019). Efectividad de las intervenciones educativas sobre las prácticas de la alimentación complementaria en las madres para mejorar el estado nutricional de los niños menores de 2 años.
[2] Daelmans, B., Ferguson, E., Lutter, C. K., Singh, N., Pachón, H., Creed-Kanashiro, H., ... & Pareja, R. (2013). Designing appropriate complementary feeding recommendations: tools for programmatic action. Maternal & child nutrition, 9, 116-130.
[3] Wardle, C. J., Green, M., Mburu, C. W., & Densmore, M. (2018). Exploring Co-Design with Breastfeeding Mothers. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 482).
[4] Schaefbauer, C. L., Khan, D. U., Le, A., Sczechowski, G., & Siek, K. A. (2015). Snack buddy: supporting healthy snacking in low socioeconomic status families. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1045-1057).
[5] Hwang, M. L., & Mamykina, L. (2017, May). Monster appetite: Effects of subversive framing on nutritional choices in a digital game environment. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4082-4096).
[6] Bomfim, M. C., Kirkpatrick, S. I., Nacke, L. E., & Wallace, J. R. (2020, April). Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).
[7] Lukoff, K., Li, T., Zhuang, Y., & Lim, B. Y. (2018). Tablechat: mobile food journaling to facilitate family support for healthy eating. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1-28.
[8] Jiménez Rondinel, S. N., & Alcedo Fabian, C. J. (2019). Efectividad de las intervenciones educativas sobre las prácticas de la alimentación complementaria en las madres para mejorar el estado nutricional de los niños menores de 2 años.
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