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• - Academic Lead
• - Academic lead
• Emily Richards - Head of Strategic Engagement (Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Emma Riddle - HLL Network Project Manager (contact for general enquiries)

Maintaining social connections

• : Social and health psychologist with research expertise and experience around the role of social connection in addressing loneliness and social isolation, when and how technology can enhance social connections, and in social prescribing.
  
• : Processes through which societal institutions and practices contribute to (or undermine) social cohesion and community well-being.
• : Exploring emotional loneliness and (dis) connection and understanding people's lived experiences of retirement communities..
• : Using data to reduce health inequalities and support behaviour change interventions and the impact new technology has on people and society.
• : Written, spoken and digital workplace communication, language education and the role of language in digital global workplace communication.

Promoting healthy behaviour

• : Applying psychological theories to help people to change their health behaviours to promote health and wellbeing in later life.
• : Healthy ageing, particularly in women.
• : Biology of ageing, including how we can use physical activity and diet to improve health outcomes in older people.
• : Improving quality of life for older people, digital technologies and their role in contributing to healthy lifestyles, exercise and health communication.

Sustaining physical activity

• : Exercise and rehabilitation science, the role of exercise in the prevention of chronic conditions, assistive healthcare technologies, human and applied physiology; Co-Director of the .
• : Biomechanics and biomaterials with focus on orthopaedic problems such as joint replacements and implants.
• : Healthcare and orthopaedic engineering, modelling of biological systems alongside hip and knee joint function.
• : Changes to the muscle architecture, mechanics and recruitment with age and injury; Enhancing neuromuscular system performance with training and technology.

Digital technology

• : Non-pharma logical treatments such as mindfulness to support people with chronic conditions and the use of digital technology to help people with respiratory diseases.
• : Development of low-cost easy-to-use companion diagnostic devices that can be deployed in a variety of clinical, community and home settings; Director of the Centre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio).
• : The possibilities for use of AI in healthcare and biologically inspired autonomous systems.
• : Technological, cognitive and social challenges and opportunities of interactive systems; Virtual reality.
• : Behavioural modelling and simulation, autonomous systems, robotics and intelligent systems; Director of the Centre for Autonomous Robotics.

Creating healthy and active places

• : Supporting the design practice for health and wellbeing.
• : Innovative renewable construction materials to improve occupant health and wellbeing in indoor environments.

Rethinking care

• : Evaluating innovative interventions that cut across health and social care, the transfer and scaling up of interventions as they move between countries.
• : Remote consultations in hospital care, palliative and end of life care; Improving life for older people with chronic pain; Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy.
• : Mathematical modelling and computer simulation to evaluate the likely impact of healthcare interventions and improvement in the planning and delivery of care services; Director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement.

Understanding health inequalities

• : Evidence based practice in public health and primary care; Wellbeing, maintenance of health and inequalities in health and care.
• : Social determinants of health, particularly in the management of long-term conditions for older people, the relation between physical and mental health, the effect of housing on physical and mental health and the effect of early life shocks on later life health. 
• : Health inequalities across the lifespan, the operation of social power impacting engagement with a variety of health practices.

Living well with cognitive impairment

• : Development of new EEG technique for assessing cognitive deficits in dementia, ageing and neurological disorders.
• : Development of dietary factors capable of slowing the onset of dementia and promoting healthy cognitive ageing.

Death and bereavement

• : Grief and bereavement studies, families and familial obligation and policy responses to death; Co-Director of the Centre for Death and Society.

Working life

• : Income and poverty dynamics among older people, state pensions and work decisions.
• : Extending working life.