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Staff Profile

Dr Christopher Bull

Lecturer Computing Science. Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

  • Personal Website: https://chrisbull.net/
  • Address: School of Computing,
    Urban Sciences Building,
    Newcastle University,
    1 Science Square,
    Newcastle upon Tyne,
    NE4 5TG
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 the 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

  • Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
Research

Projects

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

  • Sami Alghamdi – Design Tools to Support Novice Programming Learners
  • 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
  • Chinomnso Ekwedike – Generative AI in Computing Education
  • Jake Hobbs – Augmented Reality Surgical Applications for Operating Theatres
  • Yiwen Shang – Impacts of Social Media on Mental Wellbeing
  • Viana Zhang – Technology-based Interventions and Assistance for Maternal Mental Health and Wellbeing
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:

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