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Staff Profile

Dr Christopher Bull

Lecturer Computing Science

Background

I am interested in the sensing, understanding, and actioning of digital health data to radically transform how people live their lives. My research interests lie in designing, developing, and evaluating secure health informatics and cybernetics platforms and ecosystem elements as a digital health infrastructure—crossing software engineering and pervasive technologies. This includes digital phenotyping, assistive and diagnostic healthcare technologies, and systems for healthcare professionals. I use co-design/creation methods to create solutions applicable to patients, service users, and health professionals. I have an interest in ethical challenges of healthcare technologies and applying mixed methods to complex problems.

For a full list of publications, please see my Google Scholar profile.


Roles within the School of Computing

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee — Lead: Students
  • PhD Panels
Research

Projects

I am a Work Package co-lead for the IDEA-FAST project (EU Horizon 2020 #853981): https://idea-fast.eu/


Interests

My central interest lies in Digital Health; measuring, diagnosing, and supporting people. I have experience working towards identifying Digital Biomarkers of health conditions, co-designing and co-creating technologies, developing digital health platforms, as well as designing technology to support healthcare and medical professionals.

I also have interests in:

  • Mixed/Augmented/Virtual Reality (especially in the health domain)
  • Collaborative Software Engineering/Development
  • Software Engineering Education

PhD supervision

  • Nada Altwala – Conversational Agents to Support People with Dementia
  • Remco Benthem De Grave – Digital Technology to Empower People in Making Healthy and Sustainable Food Purchase Choices
  • Viana Zhang – Technology-based Interventions and Assistance for Maternal Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Lenia Margariti – Personal and Environmental Data to Improve Wellbeing and User Experience in the Built Environment
  • Sami Alghamdi – Design Tools to Support Novices Programming Learners
  • Jake Hobbs – Augmented Reality Surgical Applications for Operating Theatres
Teaching

Taught Courses

I primarily teach Software Engineering. I have a particular interest in teaching collaborative Software Engineering and reflective practice. The courses I am teaching are:

Current students should refer to the University’s official course pages for the most up-to-date information.

Projects (UG/PGT)

I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in the following themes:

  • Digital Healthcare
  • HCI
  • Software Engineering
  • Computing and Software Engineering Education

Examination Experience

University of the Arts London - MA/MSc Computing and Creative Industry course, at the Creative Computing Institute (2022-27)

Publications