Student-led Knowledge Exchange Challenge Fund for Digital Health
Aims of the Challenge Fund
We will fund up to 15 projects in which students work with community and patient groups to raise awareness of digital health possibilities, raising awareness of research expertise in the University, and getting input and ideas from the community for further research.
Projects will focus on groups that are often digitally disadvantaged whether by economic deprivation, rurality, isolation, sensory impairment, ethnicity, or mental or physical health.
We encourage inter-disciplinary projects engaging not only students from the Faculty of Health (nursing, medicine, dentistry, health professions, psychology), but also computing, engineering, architecture, design, robotics, digital arts and more. However, the project must be led by a Faculty of Health student.
Students will be helped by the charity
Well Connected to make contact with community groups in Devon and Cornwall. In addition, in Cornwall, the
EPIC project
has extensive links with patient and community groups and students can be put in contact via researchers
Dr Rebecca Baines
or Toni Page.
Students are encouraged to work with CHT researchers and to identify research ideas and projects from their discussions with the community and patient groups. Wherever possible one outcome of the student-led project would be subsequent collaborative application for research funding to other funding bodies.
If appropriate students are able to borrow equipment from the CHT digital device library (via Lloyd Taylor).
