The School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin is inviting applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Doherty.
This position would suit a curious and driven individual with a background in computer science, psychology or the health sciences and a desire to develop new skills and knowledge spanning diverse other disciplines, or a candidate with expertise and experience in the practice and methods of human-computer interaction, product and/or user interface design. This role provides an opportunity, in particular, to pursue an interest in the design, development, evaluation and adoption of technology to support and advance health, healthcare, mental health and/or wellbeing.
The candidate will be interested in understanding, adopting, developing and advancing a human-centred approach to the design, development and evaluation of digital technologies to support health and/or wellbeing. The candidate will complete a research project of their own design with the objective of realising a real-world impact on health and/or mental healthcare. This project will broadly concern the design, development and evaluation of new and improved health technologies, including for example, novel digital therapeutics, new means of leveraging health data to support care for chronic, co-morbid conditions, and/or the practice of in-situ design research for clinical and everyday impact.
Possible research topics include, although are not limited to: new and innovative means of accessing and supporting the provision of health and mental healthcare; digital tools to facilitate the collaboration, coordination and decision-making of care, including to improve patient-provider relationships; understanding the role of materials, tools, methods and systems to improve the clinical practice of primary and/or secondary healthcare; the self-report, sharing and disclosure of health-related data to advance wellbeing on individual and/or population scales; the practice of participatory design for health technology acceptance, engagement and adoption; the development and evaluation of novel tools to support the practice of therapy and/or self-care; systems to support the patient-centred practice of care; and any other related topic of the applicant’s own framing.
See http://bit.ly/adastraphd or https://kdoherty.ie for details and to apply.