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Dr Lynn McInnes

(Principal Investigator)

Lynn is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Psychology. She teaches on the level four module Personality and Health Psychology and on the level 6 module, Neuropsychology and Abnormal Psychology as well as being the module tutor for the Final Year Project.

Lynn's main research interest is in ageing and in particular cognitive ageing and the effects of health on cognitive ageing. She is the Panel Manager for North East Age Research which is a 28 year longitudinal study on cognitive ageing carried out in conjunction with Professor Rabbitt’s ageing study based at Manchester University. This research has been funded by major research grants from ESRC and MRC.

Her most recent research role has been as the principal investigator on a prestigious New Dynamics of Ageing Grant funded by ESRC  and the other major UK research councils looking at links between mobility and successful ageing among the older population. This research, in collaboration with local company TrackaPhone, pioneered new methodologies in relation to older adults’ use of tracking technologies.

She is also a collaborator on a MRC Lifelong Health and Well-being Network grant and on  an International Research Exchange Scheme examining models for ageing and technological solutions for improving and enhancing quality of life.

Dr Linda Little

(Co-Investigator)

Linda is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Psychology. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels on various modules including Social Psychology and Work and the Environment. She is also a member of the Psychology and Communications Technology (PaCT) Lab – part of the Centre for Cognition and Communication.

Linda’s main research areas are privacy, trust, technology use in public places, the impact of age and disability on technology use. Her research has been funded by major research grants from the ESRC, EPSRC and industry. She has attracted (as PI and CoI) grants totaling approximately £1.7 million and published widely in the fields of accessibility, privacy, security and trust. She has developed new methods for assessing existing and future technologies. Linda has also worked with local companies increasing the research capacity and culture of the North East. Linda has undertaken consultancy work and regularly presents her work at national and international conferences. She is a member of the BPS, APS and BHCIG. Linda is an editor for the journal Interacting with Computers and the Social Science Computer Review journal. 

Professor Pam Briggs

(Co-Investigator)

Pam Briggs is Dean of the School of Life Sciences and Co-Director of the Psychology and Communications Technology (PACT) Lab – part of the Centre for Cognition and Communication. She also holds the Chair in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

The PaCTLab delivers research and consultancy in relation to trust, privacy and security issues in relation to consumer technologies.  In the last five years, Pam has inter-alia: influenced the design of health technologies adults suffering from COPD (in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline); pioneered new methodologies in relation to older adults use of tracking technologies (in collaboration with local company TrackaPhone); outlined the design of a new biometric system more suitable for identity management in older adults and driven new means of using filmed scenarios in order to evaluate design (in collaboration with the CultureLab, Newcastle University); assessed the social impact of public technologies (in collaboration with NCR Ltd); attracted (as PI and CoI) industry and research council grants totalling approximately £4 million and published over forty articles on usability, accessibility, privacy, security and trust.

Professor Lynn Rochester

(Co-Investigator)

Lynn Rochester, PhD, is member of the Institute of Ageing and Health. Professor Rochester holds a BRC-funded Chair in Human Movement Science and leads on studies within the CARU human movement analysis laboratory. She has a special interest in movement science, neuro-rehabilitation and Parkinson's disease. Her main research interests are concerned with motor control of gait, impact of ageing, motor learning and the complex interactions of non-motor and motor symptoms and their consequences on independent mobility. Her studies include the development and testing of interventions to improve mobility in Parkinson's disease, application of novel technologies for assessment and intervention and development of sensitive measures for improved diagnosis. Her work has led to the development of clinical therapeutic guidelines to facilitate translation of research findings into clinical practice.

Dr Emma Jones

Research Staff

Emma is currently working on the NDA project examining predictors of mobility in a successfully ageing population. This is part of a large multidisciplinary, multi-centre research initiative: New Dynamics of Ageing. She has previously worked on projects sponsored by BBSRC and various industrial collaborators.

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