Health & Human Development
Collaborative research and consultancy
Health and Human Development is a cross-cutting theme for Science and Technology at Lancaster. Our partners can draw on a wide range of expertise, including:
- Behavioural, computational and neuropsychological techniques for studying development and learning from our Centre for Research in Human Development and Learning.
- Analytical skills from Health Informatics in the School of Computing and Communications in InfoLab21.
- Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics from the Department of Maths and Statistics.
- Advance Manufacturing skills from Engineering to develop new medical instruments.
Examples of research topics
- Anthropology of health and illness
- Long-term social impacts of disaster recovery in the context of community sustainability, vulnerability and resilience
- Air quality models and GIS
- Atmospheric particles and health
- Design and development for medical devices / surgical guides / pre-operative planning tools
- Microfluidic/biofluidic devices, electronics design for test, reliability and health monitoring
- Infrared Spectroscopy
- Voice recognition for speech therapy, nuclear medicine (radiation detection)
- Biomedical physics
- Language acquisition and atypical language development
- Impoverished nutrition
- Neuropsychological markers of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia
- Diabetes mellitus and cognitive performance and the role of glucose and insulin in Alzheimer's disease
- Clinical Trial methodology
- Epidemiological methods
Collaboration with Faculty of Health & Medicine
We also draw expertise from and work in partnership with Lancaster University’s Faculty & Health and Medicine, which offers an additional and complimentary blend of biomedical, medical, and social science expertise.
Key research areas include:
- Ageing research
- End of life care
- Mental health research
- Disability research
- Epidemiology
- Organisational health
- Cancer biology
- Neurodegenerative Disease
- Microbiology
- Cell biology and biochemistry
The Faculty has developed an integrative knowledge exchange approach to engagement with NHS and commercial sectors. Investment in developing these key areas of collaborative working is enabled through activity of the Lancashire & Cumbria Clinical Research Hub, working closely with the North West Research Design Service. These external engagement initiatives are underpinned by a suite of innovative continuing professional development programmes hosted by the Centre for Training & Development, which together form a powerful platform to drive and support healthcare research across the region.
Student Placements
We evaluate the needs of each business and match these to the appropriate student resource across Science and Technology.
Training
We offer a range of Health and Human Development related short courses and workshops, from Pharmacological Modelling to Adaptive & Bayesian Methods in Clinical Research. For more information contact Becky Gordon.
Product Development and IPR
Health & Human Development research has huge potential to develop new and more efficient products and novel techniques and applications for global complex solutions.
We have the benefit of being able to tap into the University’s experienced IPR experts to ensure that for every partnership we enter into, any IPR are agreed amongst all parties involved.
Contact
Becky Gordon
Operations Manager for Business Partnerships and Enterprise
+44 (0)1524 510 188
As part of my role as Operations Manager I also oversee the partnership development for this theme. Having worked at the university for many years I have broad network of contacts and I'm keen to facilitate new partnerships in this area.
Across science & technology we cover a broad range of expertise from individual human behaviours and analytical methodologies through to manufacturing new medical products. Please contact me for more information.