Leonie Cooper

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Dr Leonie Cooper

Digital Health Research Fellow
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)

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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Leonie's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 09: SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and InfrastructureGoal 16: SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

About Leonie

Leonie is a Digital Health Researcher and PPIE and Co-production Lead working across the Centre for Health Technology and the Mental Health Research Group (MHRG) at the University of Plymouth. With a background in Psychology, she completed her PhD on the use of social robots for delivering behaviour change interventions, exploring human-robot interaction within therapeutic contexts.

Her research focuses on the co-design, implementation and evaluation of digital health technologies, alongside developing approaches to working with people, communities and lived experience expertise across health and care research. Leonie has extensive experience in participatory and co-design approaches, working in partnership with patients, carers, community organisations, health and social care professionals, technology developers and researchers to ensure that research is meaningful, inclusive and capable of creating real-world impact.

As PPIE and Co-production Lead for the Mental Health Research Group, she co-leads the development and delivery of the programme's approach to working with people, communities and lived experience expertise across research, governance and strategic decision-making. Her interests include co-production, community engagement, digital inclusion, lived experience leadership and the evaluation of involvement and co-production within research.

Current Projects

  • PPIE and Co-production Lead: Mental Health Research Group (MHRG), leading the programme's approach to working with people, communities and lived experience expertise across five interconnected research projects.
  • Principal Investigator: Evaluating a Virtual Reality Experience for Stress Reduction among Emergency Services Control Centre Staff.
  • Researcher: Acutely Sick Kid Digital Interventions for Parents in Under-Represented Communities (ASKDIPaC), a participatory study using modified grounded theory.

Previous Projects

  • EPIC Project – eHealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
  • GOALD – Generating Older Active Lives Digitally.

Research Interests

  • Co-design and human-centred design
  • Co-production and participatory research
  • Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE)
  • Working with people, communities and lived experience expertise
  • Digital health technologies (design, implementation and evaluation)
  • Mental health research
  • Digital inclusion and accessibility
  • Evaluation of involvement and research impact

Teaching

  • Digital Health workshops for the future workforce
  • Research Methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches)
  • Co-design, involvement and co-production in health research

Contact Leonie

Room 305, Link Block, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA