Professor Mark Hawley BSc, PhD, MIPEM, Hon. FRCSLT, CSci

Professor of Health Services Research

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University of Sheffield
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Sheffield S1 4DA

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0682
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: mark.hawley@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: : 1.06, 1st Floor, The Innovation Centre

Biography

Mark Hawley is Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, where he leads the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group. He is also Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at Barnsley Hospital, where he is Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering. Over the last 20 years, he has worked as a clinician and researcher – providing, researching, developing and evaluating assistive technology, telehealth and telecare products and services for disabled people, older people and people with long-term conditions.

Mark leads a number of projects funded by the National Institute for Health Research and Technology Strategy Board, and leads the Assistive Technology theme of the Devices for Dignity Healthcare Technology Cooperative. He is a founder non-Executive Director of Medipex Ltd., the NHS Innovation Hub for Yorkshire and the Humber. In 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists for his service to speech therapy research.

Research interests

• Assistive Technology
• Telecare & telehealth
• Digital Healthcare

Current Projects

• Overcoming barriers to mainstreaming Assisted Living Technologies (MALT), Technology Strategy Board Assisted Living Innovations Platform (with ESRC and NIHR), £1.8M (2011–2014) Principal Applicant
• Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid 2 (VIVOCA2), NIHR Health Technology Devices programme, £823,364, (50/50 DH grant / industrial match funding) (2010-2012) Principal Applicant
• Virtual Extra-care (Virtex), Technology Strategy Board Assisted Living Innovation Platform, £1.03M (2008-10) PI for Sheffield £183,000
• South Yorkshire Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care, National Institute for Health Research, £20 million (50% grant funded with match funding from NHS/universities) (2008-13) Associate Director for bid (£20M), co-PI for Technology theme £2.4 million
• Devices for Dignity (D4D), NIHR Health Technology Co-operative, £550,000 (2008-2009) Co-applicant £52,000
• SMART: Self Management supported by Assistive, Rehabilitation and Telecare Technologies, EPSRC (EQUAL programme), total grant £2.3M, (2008-2011) Principal Applicant for Sheffield £560,000
• Advanced Lifestyle Monitoring System, Department of Health, Health Technology Devices programme £795,000 (50/50 DH grant / industrial match funding) (2006-2009) Principal Applicant
• Advanced Care Technologies research and knowledge transfer programme, European Union – European Regional Development Funds £523,000, total project value £2 million (2006-2008) Co-Principal Applicant
• Speech-controlled Environmental Control System – new technologies for disabled and older people, Department of Health, Health Technology Devices programme £630,000 (50/50 DH grant / industrial match funding) (2005-2008) Principal Applicant
• Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid, Department of Health New and Emerging Applications of Technology, £319,000 (2005-2008) Principal Applicant
• Assistive Technology for Independence (AT4I), Neighbourhood Renewal Funds (Doncaster) £275,000 (2004-2006) Co-applicant
• Supporting Independence: New products, new practices, new communities, EPSRC (EQUAL programme), £620,000 (2003-6) Co-applicant £184,000
• Remote rehabilitation using an intelligent exoskeleton with web-based control, Department of Health New and Emerging Applications of Technology, £230K (2003-6) Co-applicant
• Advanced Rehabilitation Technologies for Elderly and Mobility-Impaired People Applied through Innovative Internet Services (ARTEMIS), European Union Vth Framework, £1.2 MEuro, (2003-6) Co-applicant
• Falls and Telecare Evaluation (FATE), South Yorkshire Coalfields Health Action Zone, £86K (2002-3) Principal Applicant
• Location-based mobile phone applications for independent living of disabled and elderly citizens (LOCOMOTION), EU Vth framework, Project funding 4MEuro, BDGH funding 250K Euro (2002-5) Co-applicant
• Ortho-Logo-Paedia (Providing computer-based Speech Therapy across the internet), European Vth Framework, Project funding 1.4MEuro, BDGH funding 105K Euro (2002-5). Co-applicant
• Speech recognition for people with severe dysarthria (STARDUST), Department of Health New and Emerging Applications of Technology, £203K (2000-2003) Principal Applicant

Key publications

• Zheng H, Nugent C, McCullagh P, Yan Huang, Shumei Zhang, Burns W, Davies R, Black N, Wright P, Mawson S, Eccleston C, Hawley M, Mountain G, Smart self management: assistive technology to support people with chronic disease, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2010; 16: pp 224–227
• Biddiss E, Brownsell S, Hawley MS, Predicting need for intervention in individuals with congestive heart failure using a home-based telecare system, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 2009;15(5):226-31
• Judge S, Robertson Z, Hawley M S, Enderby P M, Speech Driven Environmental Control Systems - A qualitative analysis of the perceptions of users, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. May;4(3) 2009:151-7
• Bradley D, Acosta-Marquez C, Hawley MS, Brownsell S, Enderby P, Mawson S, NeXOS - The Design, Development and Evaluation of a Rehabilitation System for the Lower Limbs, Mechatronics Volume 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 247-257
  
  
• Hawley, M.S., Enderby, P., Green, P., Cunningham, S.P., Brownsell, S. Carmichael, J., Parker, M., Hatzis, A., O’Neill, P., and Palmer, R., A speech-controlled environmental control system for people with severe dysarthria, Medical Engineering and Physics 29, 5 (2007) 586–593
• Palmer R.L., Enderby P.M., Hawley M.S., Addressing the needs of speakers with longstanding dysarthria: computerised and traditional therapy compared, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders Volume 42 Supplement 1 2007; pp61-79
• Parker M., Cunningham S., Enderby P., Hawley M.S., Green P., Automatic speech recognition and training for severely dysarthric users of assistive technology – the STARDUST project, Clinical Linguistics and
  Phonetics Volume 20, Numbers 2-3, April-May 2006, pp. 149-156
  
• Brownsell S., Hawley M.S., (2004) ‘Automatic fall detectors and the fear of falling’, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 10(5) 262-7
• Hawley, M. S., 2002, Speech Recognition as an Input to Electronic Assistive Technology, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65(1), pp15 – 20.
• Hawley M.S., O’Neill P., Webb L.H., Roast C. (2002) ‘A provision framework and data logging tool to aid the prescription of electronic assistive technology’ Technology and Disability, 14, pp 43-52
• Brownsell S, Aldred H, Hawley MS, The role of telecare in supporting the
  needs of elderly people, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2007; 13: 293-297
  
• Full list of publications

Section

Mark Hawley is based in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Group in Health Services Research