Below is a list of my publications, the full and most up to date list can be found on Google Scholar:

Whilst in academia, I have received research funding from a number of sources including (as PI*):

• Title: Novel Wearable-based Stress Measurement Using Smartwatch and Earables*
  

  Funder: UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  Total Awarded: Approx. £72,798

• Title: Age inclusive technology for active ageing in retirement living
  

  Funder: UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  Total Awarded: Approx. £18,877

• Title: iSTEP: Intelligent inclusive Social Television-based Exercise snacking Project
  

  Funder: UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  Total Awarded: Approx. £105,844

• Title: European Media and Immersion Lab (EMIL)
  

  Funder: Horizon Europe and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  Total Awarded: Approx. €8,000,000

• Title: Hands free-control of upper arm prostheses using The Earswitch, and translation to functional, active, assistive support (The Earswitch FAAS-brace) for upper-limb weakness post-stroke, cervical spinal cord injury and neuropathies
  

  Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
  Total Awarded: £69,870

• Title: The Earswitch: NIHR i4i PDA: taking proof-of-concept via co-design and objective technical/ user validation to a user ready assistive technology switch, incorporating wider health and care innovative sensor applications
  

  Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
  Total Awarded: £1,449,793

• Title: BIRD Summer Studentship 2022*
  

  Funder: Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases (BIRD)
  Total Awarded: £2,840

Also, during my time at Veraz Ltd I co-authored several successful funding proposals:

• Title: The Green Badge System (Phase 3 Competition)
  

  Funder: Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare
  Total Awarded: £928,462

• Title: Care Tracker - automatic care quality assurance - hospital to home
  

  Funder: Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare
  Total Awarded: £98,853

• Title: FSA Strategic challenge 2012: Green badge system for food safety
  

  Funder: Food Standards Agency (FSA)
  Total Awarded: £54,728

Some personal and collaborative (the perks of working with amazing people) awards I have received:

• 2025 - CHI'25 Best Paper Honourable Mention for RetroSketch: A Retrospective Method for Measuring Emotions and Presence in Virtual Reality
• 2024 - CHI'24 Best Paper Honourable Mention for Sweating the Details: Emotion Recognition and the Influence of Physical Exertion in Virtual Reality Exergaming
• 2020 - EPSRC Doctoral Prize
• 2020 - ETRA'20 Best Paper Honourable Mention for BimodalGaze: Seamlessly Refined Pointing with Gaze and Filtered Gestural Head Movement
• 2017 - TOCHI Best Paper Award for Motion Correlation: Selecting Objects by Matching Their Movement
• 2014 - Best MSc Computer Science Dissertation, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
• 2014 - Best Overall Student, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University

I am very lucky to work with amazing PhD students and co-supervisors across a range of topics, listed in order of expected graduation date:

• Dr Violet Henderson (graduated 2024) - "Using Smartphone Tools to Enable Home-Measurement of the BASMI". Supervised with Dr. Dario Cazzola, Prof. Raj Sengupta, and Dr. Simon Jones.
• Dr Izzy Fitton (graduated 2024) - "Observational Learning for Psychomotor Skills Training in Virtual Environments". Co-supervised with Dr. Christof Lutteroth, Dr. Michael Proulx, and Jeremy Dalton.
• Dr Julia Groot (graduated 2025) - "Evaluating Engagement and Effectiveness of Digital Health Technology to Promote and Support Mental Health and Well-being". Co-supervised with Prof. Mark Brosnan and Dr. Ben Ainsworth.
• Rosie Barnett - "Exploration of digital interventions to support the self-management of axial spondyloarthritis". Co-supervised with Dr. Peter Rouse and Prof. Raj Sengupta.
• James Nash - "Creating and Evaluating Novel Fluid-Powered, Force-Responsive Displays". Co-supervised with Prof. Jason Alexander and Dr. Adwait Sharma.
• James Whiffing - "Adaptive Pointing for Selection of Targets at a Distance". Supervised with Prof. Tobias Langlotz, Dr. Adwait Sharma, and Dr. Christof Lutteroth.
• Lauren Pococke - "Gesture Augmentation for Virtual Reality Motor Accessibility". Supervised with Dr. Christof Lutteroth.
• Greg Knowles - "AI-based mobility monitoring of axial spondyloarthritis patients using wearable sensors". Supervised with Dr. Benjamin Metcalfe and Prof. Raj Sengupta.
• Yige Yang - "Detecting affective states and brain interfacing in the real world and in multitasking scenarios: A Neurotechnological Approach". Co-supervised with Prof. Damien Coyle and Dr. Crescent Jicol.
• Alaa Kattan - " Effect of Pain and Kinesiophobia on Biomechanical Parameters, Muscle Activation Strategies, and Spinal Mobility in Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients During and After Flare Stage, and Implementation of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation.". Co-supervised with Dr. Dario Cazzola, Dr. Peter Rouse, Dr. Logan Wade, and Prof. Raj Sengupta.

If you are interested in undertaking a PhD with me please get in touch! We advertise funded opportunities on FindAPhD (click here), but there are always other opportunities for excellent students.

Program committee member:

• ISWC 2025 - Associate Chair
• CHI 2025 - Associate Chair (Computational Interaction)
• UIST 2024 - Associate Chair
• ISWC 2024 - Associate Chair
• CHI 2024 - Associate Chair (Understanding People — Statistical and Quantitative Methods)
• ETRA 2023 Short Papers - Associate Chair
• NordiCHI 2022 - Associate Chair
• MUM 2021 – Awards Committee
• MUM 2021 – Associate Chair for Long/Short Papers and Posters
• CHI LBW 2021 – Associate Chair
• INTERACT 2021 Full papers – Associate Chair
• INTERACT 2021 Short papers – Associate Chair
• NordiCHI 2020 – Associate Chair
• ACM Symposium on Communication by Gaze Interaction (COGAIN) 2020
• ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) 2019
• ACM Multimedia 2019 - Demo track

Organising committee member and service:

• COGAIN Symposium 2023 Program committee co-chair
• Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2022 Workshop Co-organiser for Augmented Video
• Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) 2022 Demo and Videos co-chair
• User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2021 Session Chair
• User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2020-21 Sustainability co-chair

Reviewer of research articles in HCI & UbiComp conferences/journals:

• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
• ACM Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
• PACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
• ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
• Other ACM Conferences including ISS, DIS, ETRA, TEI, CHI Play, MUM
• IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
• Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews at CHI'19, CHI'22, ETRA'22, CHI'23 (x2), DIS'23, CHI'24, and ISMAR'24 Journals