One of my longest running interests and coallabroations involves improving our undersranding of and reducing the impact of ‘missinginess’ in healthcare. The above is a distribution of patients' total number of missed appointments over 3 years (N>500,000). The smaller histogram shows the same dataset for patients who miss two or more appointments. Figure from Ellis et al., 2017. 

Active Groups, Labs, Institutes and Research Centres


Beacon: Value of data Considers the cultural, economic and psychological value of new and emerging forms of data.

Psychology Sensor Lab How can technology best serve psychological and bio-social research? 
                            
Applied Digital Behaviour Lab An interdisciplinary group based at The University of Bath who develop and apply new methodologies to study people and groups in online and offline contexts.

The Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) A national hub for understanding, countering and mitigating security threats.

National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN). REPHRAIN is exploring how to keep people safe online while allowing them to fully participate in digital technologies and the contributions they make to an innovative, inclusive and healthy economy and society.
  
The Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) brings together people involved in research, practice, and policy with a focus on digital contexts. They are a 'one stop shop' for engagement between academic and non-academic communities - a way for these communities to connect and a platform for building collaborations across the spectrum of issues relating to security, privacy, identity and trust.

Healthy Later Living Network. An interdisciplinary research network of leading academics, helping people remain independent, productive, active and socially connected for longer.

LEAP - A Digital Health Hub for the South West. By providing a unique programme of training through its University partners and by offering research funding, the LEAP Digital Health Hub is cultivating a multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial, cross-sector Digital Health community across the South West and South Wales.

Developing Interventions to Reduce "missingness" in Healthcare Missingness interventions aims to develop a theoretically informed understanding of "missingness" from patient, professional and policy perspectives with the intent of co-producing a complex intervention with multiple components for primary care to test in a future study.  

Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²). This multi-disciplinary centre brings together extensive expertise at the University of Bath in applied health research, including operational research, operations management, analytics, information systems, other quantitative and qualitative research methods and models, and experience from different industries.  

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security (College of Supervisors) Aims to train the cyber security leaders of the future. It is a joint-university, inter-disciplinary collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Bath. 

Centre for Business, Organisations and Society (CBOS) conducts interdisciplinary, high quality and high impact research on sustainability and business. Our mission is to rethink the role and responsibilities of business in creating a sustainable society; and to provide a theoretically and empirically robust evidence base to help us get there. 

British Science Association (BAS) Psychology Section  The BSA was founded in 1831 to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. The Psychology Section arranges events to communicate to the public and press the very best of UK scientific psychology research at the annual British Science Festival. 


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