Professor Marilyn Lennon
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I am a Professor in Digital Health and Care in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at University of Strathclyde. I am founder and one of the directors of the Digital Health and Wellness Group (DHaWG) at Strathclyde. We are leading multidisciplinary researchers in the area of user centered design, evaluation and implementation of a range of digial technologies and services for supoprting health and wellbeing of individuals and the population. My background is in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), usability, user centred design, and evaluation. The current focus of my work is novel wearable and mobile technologies for care at home from remote monitoring (e.g. precdictve falls monitoring), to remote diagnosis and screening technoloigies (e.g. colon capsule technology evaluations), to smart home and tech for social care more generally (including for example medicine management, and self management of diabetes). I have a strong background in working with external clients and stakeholders including NHS, charities and health and social care practitioners to generate requirements for and evaluate the impact of large health tech projects. I am really interested in the social and technical barriers and facilitators to getting health technologies to work in practice in the real world and how we can evaluate them robustly but more quickly so that innovative ideas can have real impact.
Area of Expertise
Marilyn has a strong background in mixed methods for (i) capturing, prioritising, and translating user requirements and needs for technology design, (ii) project managing implementation of digital health technologies and (iii) evaluating the impact and effectiveness of digtial health both in the lab and at scale.
Prize And Awards
- MyCity: Glasgow - Gamechanger Award (Gold Medal)
- Recipient
- 23/4/2014
- Emerald Outstanding Paper Award
- Recipient
- 29/6/2013
- Best Paper Award (most replicable scientific paper)
- Recipient
- 7/4/2013
Qualifications
Marilyn has a first class BSc degree in Psychology (Glasgow 1998), a PhD in Computing Science (Glasgow 2002) and a post graduate diploma in academic practice meaning she is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). She is also an active member of the Asscociation for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Publications
- 2350 A scoping review of guidelines and resources to promote evidence-based prescribing for older people with sensory impairment
- Morrison BC, Asante E, Lennon MR, Watson MC
- Age and Ageing Vol 53 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae139.085
- Predictive data analytics in telecare and telehealth : systematic scoping review
- Anderson Euan, Lennon Marilyn, Kavanagh Kimberley, Weir Natalie, Kernaghan David, Roper Marc, Dunlop Emma, Lapp Linda
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics Vol 16, pp. 37-50 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/57618
- The burden of managing medicines for older people with sensory impairment : an ethnographic-informed study
- Fuzesi Peter, Broadfoot Kirsten, Lennon Marilyn, Jacob Sabrina Anne, Macaden Leah, Smith Annetta, Welsh Tomas, Watson Margaret C
- Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Vol 10, pp. 1-11 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23337214241253410
- Digital mental health interventions for adolescents in low- and middle-income countries : insights from South Sudan
- Wani Carolina, McCann Lisa, Lennon Marilyn
- 2023 Digital Heath & Care Fest (2023)
- RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) evaluation of the use of activity trackers in the clinical care of adults diagnosed with a chronic disease : integrative systematic review
- Hodgson William, Kirk Alison, Lennon Marilyn, Janssen Xanne, Russell Eilidh, Wani Carolina, Eskandarani Dina
- Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol 25 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/44919
- Assistive technologies and strategies to support the medication management of individuals with hearing and/or visual impairment : a scoping review
- Cooper Lesley, Fuzesi Peter, Jacob Sabrina Anne, Kamalakannan Sureshkumar, Lennon Marilyn, Macaden Leah, Smith Annetta, Welsh Tomas, Broadfoot Kirsten, Watson Margaret C
- Disability and Health Journal Vol 16 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2023.101500
Teaching
Marilyn is currently course director for a taught Masters in Digital Health Systems. She has taught at all levels but specialises in level 1 UG and level 5 PG teaching including Information Management and Database Fundamentals, Human Computer Interaction, and Design of Usable Systems. She has supervised 5 PhDs (2 completed so far) and over 100 level 4 and level 5 final year projects.
Research Interests
Marilyn has over 20 years experience in the user centered design and evaluation of interactive technologies. She has been involved in various projects involving smart home technology, mobile lifestyle app design and development and the implementation and evaluation of telecare, telehealth and assisted living technologies both in the lab and 'in the wild'.
Professional Activities
- Accelerate Schools Programme Computer Science Challenge 2024
- Contributor
- 24/6/2024
- Accelerate Schools Programme Computer Science Challenge
- Recipient
- 19/6/2023
- Clinical Trials Data Workshop
- Organiser
- 17/11/2022
- University of Waterloo Research Visit
- Participant
- 10/10/2022
- ORCHA (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 20/9/2022
- University Of Strathclyde (Organisational unit)
- Advisor
- 9/2022
Projects
- Personalised response monitoring in oncology: co-creating clincal trials in advanced breast cancer (PREMIO) (HORIZON-MISS-2023_CANCER)
- Maguire, Roma (Principal Investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Miller, Morven (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Dec-2029
- Causal Counterfactual visualisation for human causal decision making – A case study in healthcare
- Dong, Feng (Principal Investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Maguire, Roma (Co-investigator)
- This project aims at a robust, fast paced proof-of-concept to unlock the potential of AI in biomedical and health research. It will apply the newly emerging generative AI technology to transform biomedical and health research by enabling virtual clinical trial emulation with synthetic data. The research outcome will address key limitations in both Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) and observational studies.
- 01-Jul-2023 - 31-Dec-2025
- The Pansophy Cohort: Multidisciplinary solutions to the age-related challenges of pharmaceutical care
- Watson, Margaret (Principal Investigator) Giardini, Mario Ettore (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2025
- AICE AI supported picture analysis in large bowel camera capsule endoscopy (Horizon-HLTH-2021-Disease-04)
- Maguire, Roma (Principal Investigator) Barry, Sarah (Co-investigator) Kavanagh, Kimberley (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Sep-2022 - 31-Aug-2026
- EPSRC IAA: PE/ citizen science additional allocation
- Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Apr-2022 - 31-Mar-2025
- Developing recommendations for a data driven intervention to support physical activity promotion in Type 2 diabetes care
- Kirk, Alison (Principal Investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Janssen, Xanne (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2021 - 30-Sep-2024
Contact
Professor
Marilyn
Lennon
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: marilyn.lennon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted