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New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor

Presentation / Conference
Patrick-Thomson, H., Lawson, A., & Lapok, P. (2024, April)
New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor. Paper presented at Digital Business and Society Consortium, Royal Holloway, University of London
Work in the creative and cultural industries is often seen as “good” because it offers people a chance to earn money while engaged in their passion (McRobbie, 2018), to have a...

Landscape Assessment of Data and Digital Readiness of Scottish Care Homes (LADDeR): a mapping study

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koikkalainen, H., Johnston, L., Lawson, A., Lapok, P., Anderson, L., & Shenkin, S. (2022, November)
Landscape Assessment of Data and Digital Readiness of Scottish Care Homes (LADDeR): a mapping study. Poster presented at Digital Health & Care Fest, Online

Foundation level barriers to the widespread adoption of digital solutions by care homes: Insights from three Scottish studies

Journal Article
Johnston, L., Koikkalainen, H., Anderson, L., Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Shenkin, S. D. (2022)
Foundation level barriers to the widespread adoption of digital solutions by care homes: Insights from three Scottish studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), Article 7407. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127407
The care home sector has great potential to benefit from technological innovations, and to be at the forefront of developing novel digital solutions to improve the experiences...

Landscape Assessment of Data and Digital Readiness of Scottish Care Homes (LADDeR): a mapping study

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koikkalainen, H., Johnston, L., Lawson, A., Lapok, P., Anderson, L., & Shenkin, S. (2022, June)
Landscape Assessment of Data and Digital Readiness of Scottish Care Homes (LADDeR): a mapping study. Paper presented at Nursing Home Research International Conference, Tolouse, France

Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning

Conference Proceeding
Ilyas, M., Ahmad, J., Lawson, A., Khan, J. S., Tahir, A., Adeel, A., …Hussain, A. (2020)
Height Prediction for Growth Hormone Deficiency Treatment Planning Using Deep Learning. In Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. , (76-85). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39431-8_8
Prospective studies using longitudinal patient data can be used to help to predict responsiveness to Growth Hormone (GH) therapy and assess any suspected risks. In this paper,...

Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms

Journal Article
Lawson, A., Ryan, F. V., Cruickshank, P., & Hall, H. (2019)
Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Information Research, 24(4),
Introduction. The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered t...

Machine Learning for Health and Social Care Demographics in Scotland

Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Smales, A., Lawson, A., & Chute, C. (2019, November)
Machine Learning for Health and Social Care Demographics in Scotland. Paper presented at HEALTHINFO 2019, Valencia, Spain
This paper outlines an extensive study of applying machine learning to the analysis of publicly available health and social care data within Scotland, with a focus on learning...

Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design

Conference Proceeding
Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2019)
Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design. In GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. , (383-384). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319619.3322006
This study presents a method to evolve planar mechanism prototypes using an evolutionary computing approach. Ultimately, the idea is to provide drafts for designers at the con...

Pathogen detection in bathing waters using microfluidic technology, image processing and deep learning

Presentation / Conference
Kerrouche, A., Muhammad, I., Rueckert, S., & Lawson, A. (2019, June)
Pathogen detection in bathing waters using microfluidic technology, image processing and deep learning. Poster presented at Research Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
Monitoring the quality of recreational waters such as beaches and rivers is becoming a global concern to protect human health (e.g. the EU Bathing Water Directive (BWD) in Eur...

Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms

Presentation / Conference
Ryan, F., Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Lawson, A. (2019, June)
Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Paper presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science 10 (CoLIS10), Ljubjana, Slovenia
Introduction. The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered th...

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A New Generation of Peer Advice Systems– Prototyping and Testing the Freelance Advisor App

2025 - 2026
Research shows a big knowledge gap in the freelance community, with 56.5% of freelancers not feeling well informed of their rights, 68.5% having issues with late or non-payment, and 57.1% relying on p...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £9,998

A Critical Evaluation of the efficiency and potential of Artificial Intelligence in personalising Exercise Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Cardiovascular Disease Patie...

2025 - 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) driven digital solutions can support the shift of exercise-based cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation (CVPR) from clinical services to patients’ home by enabling i...
Funder: Digital Health Institute | Value: £7,775

FLYSWX AI Feasibility Study

2023 - 2024
Small World Aviation wants to develop an AI-powered Airline Optimisation Modelto enhance and optimise its flight planning and analysis.This project focuses on utilising AI-driven data analysis for pre...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £23,728

FlySWX Route Enablement Analysis

2023 - 2023
Small World Aviation is a new aviation company based at Inverness Airport that will initially serve the Highlands and Islands, with plans for global expansion. The company is focused on becoming "impl...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Recovery from Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

2023 - 2025
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is increasingly recognised as an important cause of myocardial infarction (MI). Despite this, there are no recovery programmes tailored for SCAD survivors...
Funder: Burdett Trust for Nursing | Value: £184,716

Link Forty2

2022 - 2022
The aim of the project is to design a recruitment service for jobseekers and employers in the form of a software system, e.g., a web service or mobile app. The system is intended to re-define and spee...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Scoping an AI Powered Peer Advice System for Creative Freelancers

2021 - 2022
The aim of this project is to conduct an enhanced scoping exercise to establish the feasibility and parameters of creating an AI powered system (such as a ‘chatbot’) to offer advice to creative freela...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Care Home Digital Foundations Landscape Assessment in South East Scotland

2021 - 2023
To conduct a Regional landscape assessment of the current digital foundations of care homes in the area. This work would identify for all care homes in the region details of (1) digital connectivity;...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £43,985

Care Home Data - Governance, Ethics, Access Demonstration Project

2021 - 2021
A scoping and exemplar project on routes to accessing care home individual resident data for use in research and innovation
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £30,000

Design a smart system for pathogens detection in bathing waters

2019 - 2025
Monitoring the quality of recreational waters such as beaches and rivers is becoming a global concern to protect human health (e.g. the EU Bathing Water Directive (BWD) in Europe). In Scotland, water ...
Funder: Data Lab | Value: £38,822
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Designing a digital health information ecosystem for enhancing patient engagement and health literacy

2025 - date
Fatihu Aminu | Director of Studies: Dr Frances Ryan | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

A Critical Evaluation of the efficiency and potential of Artificial Intelligence in Personalising Exercise Prescription for Cardiovascular Rehabilitation in Cardiovascular Disease Patients.

2025 - date
Miss Natalie Elliott | Director of Studies: Dr Sheona Mchale | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

Design of a smart system for pathogen detection in bathing water using deep learning

2023 - date
Hemza Abdel Fettah Berkani | Director of Studies: Dr Abdelfateh Kerrouche | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

Enhancing Labour Market Intelligence using Machine Learning

2021 - date
Mr Aleksander Bielinski | Director of Studies: Dr David Brazier | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitra Gkatzia

Everyday data for Covid19 from mHealth devices: The PAIDUR Framework

2019 - 2023
Dr Colin Brown | Director of Studies: Alistair Lawson | Second Supervisor: Dr Peter Barclay

Advancements in privacy enhancing technologies for machine learning

2018 - 2024
Adam Hall | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Dr Nick Pitropakis

Enabling female student interaction in synchronous virtual classrooms in Saudi Higher Education

2017 - 2022
Najla Alamri | Director of Studies: Prof Sally Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Colin Smith

Conception, implementation and empirical evaluation of a domain-specific language for multi-agent traffic and transport simulations

2016 - date
Benjamin Hoffmann | Director of Studies: Dr Neil Urquhart | Second Supervisor: Dr Kevin Chalmers

Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design

2015 - 2020
Dr Paul Lapok | Director of Studies: Alistair Lawson | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter

Test-bed and evaluation of a home-based adverse event prediction infrastructure

2013 - 2021
The "Frailty Framework" is the development of a next generation health assessment and predictive analysis system. It will...
Adrian Smales | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

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