News & Events

• 25 June 2024: Presenting extended abstract "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing and Future Implications for Healthcare Technologies" at Design4Health, Sheffield, UK

• 18 June 2024: Presenting webinar "Exploring Sound Sensing AI for Home Wellbeing through Participatory Design Research" through UK Acoustics Network (UKAN)

• 13 June 2024: Elected to the Designing Research Society (DRS) International Advisory Committee

• 12 July 2022: Organised and hosted "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" AI Seminar Day with 10 speakers, including national and international AI experts, at 6G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK

• 11 July 2022: Facilitated "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" World Cafe with 24 AI experts, University of Surrey, UK

• 30 June 2022: Facilitated "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" focus group at DRS2022, Bilbao, Spain

• 18 May 2022: Presented bespoke creative method "Happy Homes Workshop" (employing art therapy techniques) at "Envisioning and designing digital technology for the home" workshop held at the Museum of the Home, London

• 14 May 2022: Delivered TEDx talk "Designing AI for Wellbeing"

• 7 March 2022: Led "virtual world cafe" exploring sound sensing technology for workplace wellbeing with 14 UK office-based workers.

• 31 January 2022: Appointed member of AHRC Peer Review College to provide expert reviews on AHRC schemes

• 20 January 2022: Invited as guest speaker to deliver presentation on AI4S research to Discover.ai

• 13 December 2021: Winner of Research England Participatory Research Grant (£10K) to explore AI for workplace wellbeing

• 12 December 2021: Appointed Surrey AI Fellow for new People-centred AI Institute to lead pan-University collaboration on AI related research, teaching and innovation

• 6 December 2021: Won IAS Workshop Fund (£3.5) to plan and host "Designing AI for Wellbeing" World Cafe

• 12 November 2021: Hosted "Envisioning Future Homes for Wellbeing" online event

• 2 November 2021: Hosted "Research and Innovation in Technologies for Home Wellbeing" and "Future Technologies for Home Wellbeing" at 5G/6G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey

• 2 September 2021: Named researcher on successful National Cyber Security Centre (NCSE) grant to the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE)

• 9 August 2021: Won the EPSRC IAA Commericalisation Fellowship

• 9 August 2021: Won ESRC IAA funding to run two events for the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences

• 22-23 June 2021: Invited poster presentation at Shaping Futures Conference 2021 [Twitter]

• 9 June 2021: Invited talk at UKRI ECR Forum welcome week

• 20 May 2021: Invited talk at Response-ability Summit 2021 [Twitter] [LinkedIn]

• 12 May 2021: Invited talk at the Institute of Sound Recording (IoSR) seminar day

• 22 April: led "virtual world cafe" with 12 Guildford residents to explore directions for new sound sensing technology to improve sounds in urban environments

• 19-21 April 2021: Presented poster at Urban Sound Symposium, "Exploring Sound Sensing to Improve Quality of Life in Urban Living"

• 24 Mar 2021: Presented at Connected Places Catapult Breakfast Briefing: Enabling Thriving Urban Communities through Sound Sensing AI Technology, with Prof Mark Plumbley [Twitter] [LinkedIn]

• 12 Nov 2020: Invited talk with Prof Mark Plumbley at #LboroAppliedAI seminar series on applied AI, at Loughborough University