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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please find details below of a EuroPOND CDT studentship available in UCL.
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The deadline is 15 July 2016 - please pass on to anyone who may be interested.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Designing user interfaces to support front-end clinical decision-making in neurodegenerative disease<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">:
Bridging from research to practice</span></strong></span><strong><o:p></o:p></strong></b></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">EuroPOND CDT studentship</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Supervisory team:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Prof Daniel Alexander</span></strong>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cmic/homepage/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">Centre
for Medical Image Computing, Dept. Computer Science</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Dr Anna Cox</span></strong>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">UCL
Interaction Centre, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences</span></a></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Dr Annemie Ribbens</span></strong>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icometrix.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Icometrix</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(external).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is an opportunity for a student to design a tool that will help clinicians use novel models of neurodegenerative disease emerging from recent research at UCL. Realising broader clinical impact in this area is important and timely because
management of neurodegenerative disease is reaching crisis point with the ageing population. This PhD offers candidates an exciting opportunity to have real impact on the way clinicians diagnose, and ultimately treat, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s
disease and other dementias. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are a number of exciting challenges for the PhD candidate to engage with before achieving this potential, which include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
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understanding the capability and value of the research models for clinical practice; <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
understanding the workflows, constraints and everyday practices of clinicians; <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
following a user-centred design design process in a clinical context; <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
creating appropriate low and hi-fidelity prototypes so clinical colleagues can provide feedback;<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
negotiating technical and ethical issues for developing a medical tool for a clinical context.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This industry-sponsored studentship is a collaboration between UCL’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cmic/homepage/" target="_blank" title="CMIC"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Centre
for Medical Image Computing</span></a>, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/" target="_blank" title="UCLIC"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">UCL Interaction Centre</span></a>, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icometrix.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Icometrix</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>–
a healthcare engineering company based in Leuven, Belgium. The studentship aligns with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/193295_en.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Horizon
2020</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://europond.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">EuroPOND</span></a>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The
student will join a growing cohort of PhD students who are part of the <a href="http://ihealth.cs.ucl.ac.uk/phd-students/">
<span style="color:windowtext">UCL Institute for Digital Health</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Recent work in the POND group within<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pond/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">CMIC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has
developed longitudinal models of biomarker changes from large cross-sectional data sets; see for example (<a href="http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/137/9/2564/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Young, et al. 2014</span></a>)
The models uniquely integrate information from a wide range of biomarkers – imaging, CSF markers, blood tests, neuropsychological assessments, etc. – which clinicians and biomedical researchers find increasingly difficult to assimilate. The student will build
a front-end tool following user-centred design processes so clinicians can utilise these modelling techniques in their normal work. The models offer great potential for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. They have
potential to i) enhance the success of drug trials, by stratifying patients by disease subtype and stage, and ii) enhance clinical management, by providing early diagnosis, accurate prognosis, and informing potential treatment decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">However, failures in the adoption of health IT systems have been well documented. It has been argued that these failures are often due to the “design-reality
gap” (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505605001255/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Heeks 2005</span></a>). There is a need to realign work as imagined and work as done for the design of health
IT (<a href="http://cri.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/10/20/1356262214556550.full"><span style="color:windowtext">Blandford et al., 2014</span></a>). The translation of this technology into clinical practice therefore presents significant challenges: – How
should the data be visualised so as to best aid clinical decision-making? – How should the system be delivered to end-users, e.g. clinicians, so as to ensure uptake? (On which platform? Who needs access? How does it integrate with existing systems and workflow?)
Candidates will conduct fieldwork in healthcare to find answers to these questions (<a href="http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00606ED1V02Y201410ARH007"><span style="color:windowtext">Furniss et al. 2014</span></a>). They will engage with techniques
to analyse how interactive systems work with other tools and artefacts whilst being embedded in workflows, social practices, and physical working environments (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046414002718"><span style="color:windowtext">Furniss
et al., 2015</span></a>). Indeed, Distributed Cognition may provide a suitable framework for understanding how clinicians currently integrate the wide range of biomarkers for decision-making and how the proposed tool could augment and support their thinking.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This project builds on the substantial expertise in conducting digital health research within<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cmic.cs.ucl.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">CMIC</span></a>
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">UCLIC</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and delivery of emerging technology to front-line
application at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.icometrix.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Icometrix</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The doctoral student will work
directly with several end-user groups, taking a user-centred approach to the design and development of a system that supports transformation of clinical practice. They will be based at UCL, but spend time on-site with Icometrix, as well as working directly
with end-user groups of clinicians and treatment developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The successful applicant will have solid skills in design orientated subjects with the ability to create low and high-fidelity prototypes of the proposed tool (e.g. the candidate might have a background in design (product/industrial), ergonomics,
HCI, human factors, computer science). The ability to develop a working product would be an advantage (here the candidate would have programming and software engineering skills). Experience of healthcare systems and research would also be advantage, but not
essential. Funding is limited to UK/EU applicants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There is an option with this studentship to join the MRes year of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://medicalimaging-cdt.ucl.ac.uk/programmes/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">CDT
in Medical Imaging</span></a>. This can be discussed during the interview phase of the recruitment process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The fees are covered for EU/UK students and the stipend is approx. £16,296 per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Enquiries: Contact any of the supervision team</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
for scientific enquiries<br>
Prof Daniel Alexander<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:d.alexander@ucl.ac.uk"><span style="color:windowtext">d.alexander@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><br>
Dr Anna Cox<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a href="mailto:anna.cox@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">anna.cox@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dr Sara Garbarino
<a href="mailto:s.garbarino@ucl.ac.uk"><span style="color:windowtext">s.garbarino@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dr Dominic Furniss
<a href="mailto:d.furniss@ucl.ac.uk"><span style="color:windowtext">d.furniss@ucl.ac.uk</span></a>
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<p style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Deadline for applications: 15 July 2016</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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