Professor Mark Hawley
BSc, PhD, MIPEM, Hon. FRCSLT, CSci
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Professor of Health Services Research
Director of CATCH, Head of RAT Group
+44 114 222 0682
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
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The Innovation Centre
217 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Mark Hawley is Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he leads the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group. He is also Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at Barnsley Hospital, where his Assistive Technology Team provides specialist electronic assistive technology services within Yorkshire. 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 is Director of the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH) at the university. He 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. In 2007, he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists for his service to speech therapy research.
Current projects
- Catalyst for Knowledge Exchange, HEFCE, £8M (2014 – 2016), Co-applicant for Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare £692,000
- Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care - Yorkshire & Humber (CLAHRC Y&H), National Institute for Health Research, £24 million (£10M grant funded with match funding from NHS/universities/industry) (2014 - 2018) Co-applicant for bid (£24M), Principal Applicant for Telehealth and Care Technologies theme £2.4 million
- Devices for Dignity plus (D4D+), NIHR Health Technology Co-operative, £800,000 (2013-2016) Co-applicant
- Overcoming barriers to mainstreaming Assisted Living Technologies, 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) (2010-2013) Principal Applicant
Section
Mark Hawley is based in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group in Health Services Research
- Research interests
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- Assistive technology
- Telecare and telehealth
- Digital healthcare
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Journal articles
- Emerging technologies and their potential for generating new assistive technologies. Assistive Technology, 33(sup1), 17-26.
- Benefits and barriers of technologies supporting working carers—a scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community. View this article in WRRO
- Continuous in-home walking speed monitoring in older people with a low-cost ambient sensor: Results of a feasibility study. Technology and Disability. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the potential of emerging technologies to meet the care and support needs of older people : a Delphi survey. Geriatrics, 6(1). View this article in WRRO
- Using a commercially available app for the self-management of hypertension : acceptance and usability study in Saudi Arabia. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 9(2). View this article in WRRO
- Exploring factors that affect the uptake and sustainability of videoconferencing for healthcare provision for older adults in care homes: a realist evaluation. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1). View this article in WRRO
- Correction to: Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF). BMC Geriatrics, 20(1).
- Identification of the Most Suitable Mobile Apps to Support Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet Self-Management: Systematic Search of App Stores and Content Analysis. Nutrients, 15(15), 3476-3476.
- A qualitative study exploring the effect of communicating with partially intelligible speech. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1-13.
- Effectiveness of computer tailored health communication in increasing physical activity in people with or at risk of long-term conditions: systematic review and meta-analysis (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research.
- The Use of Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Mobile Apps for Supporting a Healthy Diet and Controlling Hypertension in Adults: Systematic Review. JMIR Cardio, 6(2), e35876-e35876.
- The impact of autonomy at work on dementia family carers’ ability to manage care-related emergencies, and use technology to that end: semi-structured interviews in Scotland. Community, Work & Family, 1-23.
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Effectiveness of computer tailored health communication in increasing physical activity in people with or at risk of long-term conditions: systematic review and meta-analysis (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
- Identification of the Most Suitable App to Support the Self-Management of Hypertension: Systematic Selection Approach and Qualitative Study (Preprint).
- Emerging technologies and their potential for generating new assistive technologies. Assistive Technology, 33(sup1), 17-26.
- Research group
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PhD students
- Louise Newbould
- Jake Andrews
- Zahra Ommani