Disruptive, adaptive, supportive: is digital technology just a bandwagon or can it be harnessed to benefit behaviour change?
- Health
- Digital and technology
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Health psychology and behaviour change are critical to the field of digital health, but are we using our expertise to its best advantage? This seminar will explore digital health and behaviour change with two academics who have a vast experience with the ethical, practical, and theoretical issues that digital health embodies.
As the digital health landscape evolves quickly in a field where technology is also changing, advancing, and improving, Ann and Claudia will present some of the work they are doing with a particular insight into the development and collaborative approaches to working innovatively in a multidisciplinary field.
Topics will include:
- The need for innovative behaviour change interventions for public health and patient self-care, reflecting on the pandemic as well as broader healthcare sustainability issues
- Different uses of routine data and apps to both deliver and evaluate the impacts of BC interventions at the level of the population, group, or person
- The value of theory-driven digital BC interventions.
- The dark and light side of data for psychological influence, with a focus on nudges
Learning Outcomes
Participants who attend this seminar will :
- Have a greater understanding of the broad spectrum of digital health with and beyond digital apps
- Be able to consider the value of health psychology and behaviour change to the digital health field from AI to digital robots in service delivery and individual behaviour change and the ethical implications
- Discuss the way forward in relation to personal and divisional contributions to digital health
Registration
Registration is available online only.
| Delegate Category | Registration Fees (Incl. VAT at 20%) |
|---|---|
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BPS Student/Concession Member |
£10 |
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DHP Member | £10 |
| BPS Member | £30 |
| Non-BPS Member |
£60 |
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Programme
To be announced
Speakers
Claudia Pagliari
Claudia is an associate professor of primary care at the University of Edinburgh, where she leads the interdisciplinary research group in Global eHealth. She originally trained and lectured psychology before moving into health technology assessment, thereafter developing a specialty in health informatics. Her research covers a wide range of emerging and applied innovations, from telemedicine to robots, including evaluation studies, evidence synthesis, policy research and future scoping. Claudia has also founded and co-directed a number of graduate and CPD programmes, most recently the NHS Digital Academy, where she leads the theme on consumer-centred innovations and design. She also has a significant interest in the ethics of digital and data-driven approaches. During Covid she has worked with the Scottish Government, the European Centres for Disease Control, The World Health Organisation, the British Institute of International and Constitutional Law, and partners in India and Brazil, to study aspects of apps, big data mining, novel disease surveillance and online misinformation. Claudia is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, a member of the WHO Roster of Experts in Digital Health, a former member of the Global Health Workforce Council and a lapsed member of the British Psychological Society, which this event is encouraging her to rejoin!
Ann Blanford
Ann Blandford is Professor of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London. In the past, she has been Director of UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) and of the UCL Institute of Digital Health. She has led many research projects on the design of systems to help lay people and clinicians manage individuals' health. She works closely with patients, clinicians, and healthcare engineers, in both the UK and internationally. Her current projects address a range of health and wellbeing challenges; these include helping people manage diabetes, sexual health and Long Covid, and supporting clinicians to diagnose eye diseases and perform surgery more safely. She has published widely on the design and use of interactive health technologies, and on how technology can be designed to better support people's needs and values, recognising that people are living complex lives and often managing complex health conditions.
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