Projects
A selection of ongoing research projects in both the clinical domain and academic setting. Our clinical projects partner with the National Health Service (NHS) and His Majesty's Coroner, while academic projects are largely sited at University College London (UCL)
Clinical Training in Biotechnological Syndromes
Project lead
I lead a research project around the UK that evaluates the ability of clinicians to respond to patient illnesses resulting from technology e.g. malfunctioning cochlear implants. Our team run clinical simulation sessons, in which participants engage in a series of 'Cyber' medical scenarios. We analyse the ability of clinicians to provide patient care, identify gaps in knowledge and draw on these findings to develop recommendations for improving clinical training and practice. The initial case that inspired this project has been published in the British Medical Journal, linked here.
Digital Safeguarding in Clinical Settings
Project lead
Our team is investigating how technology-facilitated abuse manifests in clinical settings. In a series of focus groups and interviews with safeguarding professionals throughout the UK, we are uncovering how technology-facilitated abuse may impact patients in community and hospital settings. The article below provides a summary of our ongoing research.
Quantatitive ethics in healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI)
PhD Researcher
The core component of my PhD research at University College London (UCL) focuses on the problem of bias in healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems - I have produced a series of papers demonstrating discrminatory biases in psychiatric and medical AI algorithms. Presently, I am using representational learning to build unsupervised models that both uncover and mitigate against harmful biases.
Digital autopsies: Post mortem, post mortems of implanted medical devices
Project lead
Our project explores the management of medical devices following a patient death. At present, there are few guidelines regarding the management of the hardware and software of an implanted technology in a post-mortem. Our work explores the gaps in current guidance as we aim to digitally update the current practice of mortuary services in the UK.
