Digital Innovations in Healthcare and Education

Completed Research Projects

An online intervention to improve self-efficacy and sustain behaviour changes about exercise to improve mental health and wellbeing of young vulnerable people
To support the development of an NIHR Programme Grant application to develop and evaluate an online intervention to improve self-efficacy and sustain behavioural changes about exercise.
P. Callaghan, M. Michail, H. Blake

Formative work for the SKIP Study: Supporting Kids with Diabetes in Physical Activity: feasibility of a technology-based health communications intervention for children with type 1 diabetes (T1DM)
January 2015 - January 2016                                                                                                                                 NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group Research Development Funding and NIHR Research Capacity Funds 
H. Blake, C. Evans

HEAR-IT: Hearing Evaluation of Auditory Rehabilitation - Interactive Tutorials
January 2011 - May 2013
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)
£235K
M. Ferguson, H. Wharrad, H. Fortnum, W. brassington, P. Leighton

Motive8! Feasibility of a text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in knee osteoarthritis 
To develop and test the feasibility of using a SMS text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in patients with knee OA using data collected in 'real-time'.
H. Blake, A. Roberts, M. Batt, J. Moses

Sharing the LOAD - learning objects, activities and designs
May 2006 - October 2007
e-Learning Pedagogy programme
R. Morales, H. Wharrad, R. Windle

SMILE files - interactive, multimedia education program for parents of premature infants
M. Nicolaou, C. Glazebrook, K. Cooper, N. Marlow

Supporting student understanding of pharmacology by the use of Audience Response Units
January 2009 - April 2011
University of Nottingham – Centre for Integrative Learning
£10,000
J. Lymn, A. Mostyn, O. Meade

Using video conferencing and a teaching and learning observatory in nurse education (PDF)
University of Nottingham, Visual Learning Laboratory
B. Rush, N. Walsh, J. Collins, and H. Wharrad

Digital Innovations in Healthcare and Education Research Group

The University of Nottingham
School of Health Sciences
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA


telephone: +44 (0)115 823 0909
email: heather.wharrad@nottingham.ac.uk