Balancing user needs and technology adoption for healthy ageing

This project is funded by:

• Department for the Economy (DfE)
• Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Our fully funded PhD scholarships will cover tuition fees and provide a maintenance allowance of £19,237 (tbc) per annum for three years* (subject to satisfactory academic performance).  A Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) of £900 per annum is also available.

These scholarships, funded via the Department for the Economy (DfE) and the Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarships (VCRS), are open to applicants worldwide, regardless of residency or domicile.

Applicants who already hold a doctoral degree or who have been registered on a programme of research leading to the award of a doctoral degree on a full-time basis for more than one year (or part-time equivalent) are NOT eligible to apply for an award.

*Part time PhD scholarships may be available, based on 0.5 of the full time rate, and will require a six year registration period (individual project advertisements will note where part time options apply).

Due consideration should be given to financing your studies .

Recommended reading

[1] Kenigsberg, P. A., Aquino, J. P., Bérard, A., Brémond, F., Charras, K., Dening, T., ... & Manera, V. (2019). Assistive technologies to address capabilities of people with dementia: from research to practice. Dementia, 18(4), 1568-1595.
[2] Chaurasia, P., McClean, S., Nugent, C. D., Cleland, I., Zhang, S., Donnelly, M. P., ... & Tschanz, J. (2022). Modelling mobile-based technology adoption among people with dementia. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(2), 365-384.
[3] Chaurasia, P., McClean, S. I., Nugent, C. D., Cleland, I., Zhang, S., Donnelly, M. P., ... & Tschanz, J. (2016). Modelling assistive technology adoption for people with dementia. Journal of biomedical informatics, 63, 235-248.
[4] Knowles, B., & Hanson, V. L. (2018). Older adults’ deployment of ‘distrust’. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 25(4), 1-25.
[5] Boyle, L. D., Husebo, B. S., & Vislapuu, M. (2022). Promotors and barriers to the implementation and adoption of assistive technology and telecare for people with dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review of the literature. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1573.
[6] Soar, J., Yu, L., & Al-Hakim, L. (2020). Older people’s needs and opportunities for assistive technologies. In The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries: 18th International Conference, ICOST 2020, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 24–26, 2020, Proceedings 18 (pp. 404-414). Springer International Publishing.
[7] Chaurasia, P., McClean, S. I., Nugent, C. D., Cleland, I., Zhang, S., Donnelly, M. P., ... & Tschanz, J. (2016, August). Technology adoption and prediction tools for everyday technologies aimed at people with dementia. In 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 4407-4410). IEEE.
[8] Chaurasia, P., McClean, S. I., Nugent, C. D., Cleland, I., Zhang, S., Donnelly, M. P., ... & Tschanz, J. (2016). Impact of medical history on technology adoption in Utah Population Database. In Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Conference, UCAmI 2016, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain, November 29–December 2, 2016, Part II 10 (pp. 98-103). Springer International Publishing.
[9] McCann, A., McNulty, H., Rigby, J., Hughes, C. F., Hoey, L., Molloy, A. M., ... & Moore, A. (2018). Effect of area‐level socioeconomic deprivation on risk of cognitive dysfunction in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 66(7), 1269-1275.