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Published: 11 February 2019
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Sanaz Yeganefard (fourth right) collects her award from Tunji Akintokun MBE, Senior Vice President of NSC Global. Image credit: @WATC_WeAreTech Twitter.

Tech innovator Sanaz Yeganefard has been highlighted for her dynamic impact in industry through a TechWomen100 award.

Sanaz, a former Computer Science student at the University of Southampton, was recognised as one of 100 successful women who are excelling across the UK in tech roles.

She was presented the award in a ceremony hosted by BBC reporter Kate Russell at the etc.venues County Hall in London on Thursday 31st January.

Sanaz completed an MSc in Software Engineering at Southampton in 2009 before developing mathematical modelling techniques for automotive control systems through a PhD in the current Cyber Physical Systems research group.

She has since designed and developed systems for top UK banks, building societies and retailers which have improved the customer experience as well as business productivity and lowered costs.

Sanaz said: “I’m thrilled and honoured to be recognised for a TechWomen100 award. The tech industry needs diversity of skillset and mindset as technology touches everyone’s life. I’m even more determined than before to support others in their journey of a tech career.â€?

This winter’s TechWomen100 awards continued the momentum from the TechWomen50 series, which was launched in 2017. This time out of 500 nominees 200 were shortlisted. Over 30,000 public votes were received for the shortlisted nominees that were then put to a judging panel to compile the TechWomen100 winners.

Speakers at the London ceremony included Dayne Turbitt, Senior Vice President of Dell UK, who praised the emerging talent and called for more women to put themselves forward for tech roles. Sanaz spent four years at IBM after completing her PhD at Southampton and is now based at Santander Head Office where she works as a Technology Innovation Manager.

Her Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain solutions over the past six years have included one of the UK’s first banking chatbots and software that can find outfits on a website that match images on Pinterest. More recently, she is exploring the application of Blockchain in digital identity to empower and enable customers to own and manage their identity data.

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Published: 5 February 2019
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Professor Steve Beeby, Head of SEMS and Principal Investigator

Multi-disciplinary research at the University of Southampton is creating smart fabrics capable of emitting light, changing colour and controlling infections.

Researchers in the Smart Electronics and Materials (SEMS) group in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Synthesis, Catalysis and Flow group in Chemistry are investigating a new technique for achieving light emitting textiles which could be used in future medical, performance sports, automotive, architecture and fashion materials.

The new project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is formulating light emitting films on the surface of standard textiles through electronically functional inks and spray coating, along with cutting-edge inkjet and dispenser printing processes.

Professor Steve Beeby, Head of SEMS and Principal Investigator, says: “Textiles are demanding substrates for device printing due to their rough surface topology, porosity and the necessary low processing temperatures. The achievement of suitable functional materials along with reliable, consistent fabrication processes will enable a huge range of new textile products.â€?

The research is investigating the fabrication of textile organic light emitting electrochemical cells (OLECs) that can selectively operate at visible and UV wavelengths, representing a step change in e-textile capability. OLECs are electrochemically stable in air, require a low turn on voltage and have demonstrated a high luminance level, allowing them to be clearly visible in everyday lighting.

The use of UV-OLEC technology will enable photochromic colour-changing textiles capable of fast colour change, low operation voltage and power consumption, with a more diverse choice of colours and a clearer, more pronounced, change in appearance. UV-OLECs will also support textiles to perform ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), which is a disinfection method that uses short wavelength UVC light. Textile based UVGI can be incorporated into medical applications such as smart bandages to treat or prevent infection and reduce reliance on antibiotics.

Co-Investigators Dr John Tudor and Professor David Harrowven are drawing upon their groups’ complementary expertise in e-textiles, printed devices and processing, the chemical synthesis of complex molecules, and materials formulation.

The SEMS group at Southampton has coordinated two EU projects worth a combined €12m over the last nine years, integrating electronic and sensing functionality in e-textiles. The Synthesis, Catalysis and Flow group has been a primary UK partner on two EU projects worth a combined €11m over the past decade and currently leads the 2017 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) LabFact Grant.

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Published: 1 February 2019
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The Fair will fill Garden Court with opportunities from over 70 diverse companies.

This year’s Engineering and Technology Careers Fair, taking place at the University’s Highfield Campus on Thursday 14 February, welcomes an outstanding range of companies at the forefront of engineering and systems development.

The Fair has been running for over 10 years, playing an important role in enabling Southampton students to meet potential employers across many sectors, including finance, security, engineering consultancy, digital systems, energy, transport, and communications.

“The Fair provides a fantastic opportunity for students to get a really wide-ranging view of the breadth of opportunities across the engineering and technology sectors,â€? says Joyce Lewis, Careers Fair Director. “Southampton students already have an excellent reputation for their success in the jobs market and the quality of the 75 companies attending the Fair is a great endorsement of this.â€?

The event will take place between 11am and 3.30pm in Garden Court and over 1,500 students are expected to attend from all departments in the University. In addition to the global companies attending, there will also be strong representation from niche start-ups based at Southampton Science Park at Chilworth. Attending for the first time this year are Carnival, the cruise company which carries Southampton’s name across the world, major tech consultancies Frazer-Nash, Newton Europe and Deme Group, as well as a range of innovative high-tech start-ups owned and managed by Southampton graduates.

“We very much welcome the high quality of companies coming to the University to employ our students,â€? said Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi, Dean of Faculty, Engineering and Physical Sciences. “These companies are aware of the reputation of our students and graduates, as well as their commitment and ability to innovate and support the development of future technologies.

“There are very exciting careers to be built in these new ventures and in the new opportunities being offered in our established industries. We value our strong links with business and industry and the excellent relationships built up over time. Many of the companies will be represented by Southampton graduates, demonstrating the contribution that the University is making to the UK’s industrial and business success.â€?

For further information about the Fair, contact Joyce Lewis, tel. +44 (0)23 8059 5453.

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I currently work on the ACTION project, where I am overseeig the development of a toolkit for citizen science.

I hold a PhD in Web Science, with a thesis about the effects of the introduction of online participation processes in the Green Party Germany. This was an interdisciplinary project, situated between political sociology and human computer interaction. The doctorate followed an MSc in Web Sciene, also from Southampton, and a Bachelor's in cultural science from FernUniversität Hagen (Germany). Alongside my undergraduate degree, I worked in consultancy and project management. I also completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. 

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Research interests

I am interested in online participation, and the effect of the web on democratic processes.

Publications

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, Luczak-Roesch, Markus and O'Hara, Kieron (2016) Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci '16). ACM Press. pp. 205-214 . (doi:10.1145/2908131.2908149).

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, O'Hara, Kieron and Staab, Steffen (2017) Online participation in democratic processes: the case of the Green Party, Germany. ECPR General Conference, , Oslo, Norway. 06 - 09 Sep 2017. 22 pp .

Thuermer, Gefion and Wilde, Adriana G. (2018) Mentoring MSc students as a practice in STEM. Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Teaching in the spotlight: Learning from global communities, , Birmingham, United Kingdom. 03 - 05 Jul 2018.

Thuermer, Gefion, Roth, Silke, O'Hara, Kieron and Staab, Steffen (2018) Everybody thinks online participation is great – for somebody else: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of perceptions and expectations of online participation in the Green Party Germany. In WebSci '18 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press. pp. 287-296 . (doi:10.1145/3201064.3201069).

Thuermer, Gefion (2018) Online participation processes in the Green Party Germany: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of perceptions, expectations and experiences. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press..

Thuermer, Gefion, Morgan, Cat and Wilde, Adriana G (2018) Mentoring web science MSc students. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. ACM Press..

Thuermer, Gefion (2019) Challenges of online participation: digital inequality in party-internal processes. In Proceedings of the 2nd Weizenbaum Conference 2019. Weizenbaum Institut. 10 pp .

Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie, Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Catherine and Carmichael, Laura (2019) Data protection by design: building the foundations of trustworthy data sharing. In Proceedings of Data for Policy Conference 2019. 6 pp . (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3079895).

Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Catherine and Simperl, Elena (2019) Data Sharing Toolkit: Lessons learned, resources and recommendations for sharing data.

Stalla-Bourdillon, Sophie, Thuermer, Gefion, Walker, Johanna, Carmichael, Laura and Simperl, Elena (2020) Data protection by design: building the foundations of trustworthy data sharing. Data & Policy, 1 (1).

Walker, Johanna Catherine, Thuermer, Gefion, Simperl, Elena and Carr, Leslie (2020) Smart rural: the open data gap. Data for Policy 2020, Online. 15 - 17 Sep 2020. 5 pp . (In Press)

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Published: 31 January 2019
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Data Scientists from University of Southampton will contribute to the CLEOPATRA project alongside scientists from across Europe.

Researchers from the University of Southampton will help train AI algorithms to extract meaning from text in different languages as part of a multimillion pound project uniting scientists across Europe.

Data scientists from Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science will scale crowdsourcing techniques that feed novel natural language processing models as part of the Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics Research Academy (CLEOPATRA).

The four-year CLEOPATRA project, part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, will develop frameworks and tools that explore massive digital coverage generated by the intense disruption in the continent over the past decade – including appalling terrorist incidents and the dramatic movement of refugees and economic migrants.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network is funding 15 early-career researchers across eight European universities and research institutes to develop advanced techniques for cross-lingual processing of text and other media, which will be showcased in applications such as digital humanities. A particular focus will be on the user experience of the solutions, proposing concepts and guidelines to improve accessibility and interaction with multi-lingual resources.

Southampton researchers will contribute to the network by proposing crowdsourcing approaches that use the wisdom of crowds to produce the data needed to train and validate the AI algorithms in a scalable, ethical and fair way.

Professor Elena Simperl, Southampton’s CLEOPATRA lead, explains: “Text processing questions can increasingly be automated through the latest AI methods, but all algorithms need to be trained. Crowdsourcing techniques can deliver examples that these algorithms can learn from, but the challenge arises when scaling the process to manage thousands of people in parallel while still producing outcomes that provide additionality. Our researchers will be investigating how to plan and manage this process.â€?

Advances in the collaborative research will deliver an important step toward augmented intelligence systems that can understand, summarise and translate vast quantities of text. The CLEOPATRA project is led by the L3S Research Center at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität in Hannover, Germany, and also includes researchers from the University of London, the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and German National Library of Science and Technology in Germany, the Institut Jozef Stefan in Slovenia, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and University of Zagreb in Croatia.

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Publications

Halford, Susan (2004) Towards a sociology of organizational space. Sociological Research Online, 9 (1).

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2003) Space and place in the construction and performance of gendered nursing identities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 42 (2), 201-208. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02601.x).

Halford, Susan (2003) Gender and organisational restructuring in the National Health Service: performance, identity and politics. Antipode, 35 (2), 286-308. (doi:10.1111/1467-8330.00324).

Cooke, Lorelei, Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2003) Racism in the medical profession: the experience of UK graduates , London, UK. British Medical Association, Health Policy and Economic Research Unit, 22pp.

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2001) Gender, Power and Organisations , Palgrave Macmillan, 288pp.

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (1998) New identities? Professionalism, managerialism and the construction of self. In, Exworthy, Mark and Halford, Susan (eds.) Professionals and the New Managerialism in the Public Sector. Buckingham, UK. Open University, pp. 102-121.

Halford, Susan, Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne (1997) Gender, careers and organisations: current developments in banking, nursing and local government , Basingstoke, UK. Palgrave Macmillan, 304pp.

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1997) Rethinking restructuring: embodiment, agency and identity in organizational change. In, Lee, Roger and Wills, Jane (eds.) Geographies of Economies. UK. Arnold.

Halford, Susan (1993) Feminist change in a patriarchal organisation: the experience of women's initiatives in local government and implications for feminist perspectives on state institutions. In, Savage, Mike and Witz, Anne (eds.) Gender and Bureaucracy. (Sociological Review Monographs, 40) London, UK. Blackwell.

Halford, Susan (2006) Gender performance and organizational change: a narrative analysis of nursing identities. Travail, Genre et Societies.

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2006) Negotiating gendered identities at work: place, space and time , Basingstoke. Palgrave, 208pp.

Halford, Susan and Leonard, Pauline (2006) Place, Space and Time: The fragmentation of workplace subjectivities. Organizational Studies, 27 (5), 657-676. (doi:10.1177/0170840605059453).

Halford, Susan (2005) Hybrid workspace: re-spatialisations of work, organisation and management. New Technology, Work and Employment, 20 (1), 19-33. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00141.x).

Halford, Susan, Duncan, Simon and Goodwin, Mark (1987) Politikmuster im lokalen Staat: Ungleiche Entwicklung und lokale soziale Verhaltnisse. Prokla, 68, 8-27.

Halford, Susan (1988) Women's initiatives in local government … where do they come from and where are they going? Policy & Politics, 16 (4), 251-260. (doi:10.1332/030557388782454957).

Duncan, Simon, Goodwin, Mark and Halford, Susan (1988) Policy variations in local states: uneven development and local social relations. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 12 (1), 107-128.

Halford, Susan (1989) Spatial divisions and women's initiatives in British local government. Geoforum, 20 (2), 161-174. (doi:10.1016/0016-7185(89)90037-7).

Brownill, Sue and Halford, Susan (1990) Understanding women's involvement in local politics: how useful is a formal/informal dichotomy? Political Geography Quarterly, 9 (4), 396-414. (doi:10.1016/0260-9827(90)90036-A).

Halford, Susan (1991) Positive policies for women in British local government. In, Povall, M. and Lankau-Herrmann, M. (eds.) Equal Opportunity Developments for Women in Local Government: an Anglo-German perspective. London, UK. Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, pp. 29-43.

Halford, S., Goodwin, M. and Duncan, S. (1993) Regulation theory, the local state and transition of urban politics. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11 (1), 67-88.

Halford, S. and Fielding, A. (1993) The geography of opportunity: an analysis of gender-specific occupational mobilities in England and Wales 1971-1981. Environment and Planning A, 25 (10), 1421-1440.

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) The bureaucratic career: demise of adaptation? In, Butler, Tim (ed.) Social Change and the Middle Classes. Abingdon, UK. Routledge, pp. 117-132.

Witz, Ann, Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) Organised bodies: gender, sexuality and embodiment in contemporary organisations. In, Adkins, L. and Merchant, V. (eds.) Sexualising the Social: Power and the Organisation of Sexuality. (Explorations in Sociology, 47) Basingstoke, UK. Macmillan, pp. 173-191.

Halford, Susan and Fielding, Tony (2000) A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981-91. In, Boyle, Paul and Halfacree, Keith (eds.) Migration and Gender in the Developed World. (Routledge Research in Population and Migration) London, UK. Routledge, pp. 30-54.

Halford, Susan and Knowles, Caroline (2005) More than words: some reflections on working visually. Sociological Research Online, 10 (1).

Halford, Susan (2006) Collapsing the boundaries? Fatherhood, organization and home-working. Gender, Work & Organization, 13 (4), 383-402. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2006.00313.x).

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (1995) Restructuring organisations, changing people: gender and restructuring in banking and local government. Work, Employment and Society, 9 (1), 97-122. (doi:10.1177/095001709591004).

Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Ann Therese (2009) Beyond implementation and resistance: how the delivery of ICT policy is reshaping healthcare. Policy & Politics, 37 (1), 113-128. (doi:10.1332/030557308X313714).

Halford, Susan (2008) Sociologies of space, work and organization: from fragments to spatial theory. Sociology Compass, 2 (3), 925-943. (doi:10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00104.x).

Schroeder, Anna, Miles, Andrew, Savage, Mike, Halford, Susan and Tampubolon, Gindo (2008) Mobility, careers and inequalities: a study of work-life mobility and the returns from education (EHRC Research Report, 8), vol. 8, Manchester, UK. Equality and Human Rights Commission, 93pp.

Dyb, Kari and Halford, Susan (2009) Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference. Sociology, 43 (2), 232-249. (doi:10.1177/0038038508101163).

Halford, Susan, Lotherington, Ann Therese, Dyb, Kari and Obstfelder, Aud (2010) Un/doing gender with ICT? NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, 18 (1), 20-37. (doi:10.1080/08038741003626791).

Halford, S., Obstfelder, A. and Lotherington AT Dyb, K. (2010) Getting the Whole Picture? New information and communication technologies in healthcare work and organization. Information, Communication and Society, 13 (3).

Halford, Susan and Strangleman, Tim (2009) In search of the sociology of work: past, present and future. Sociology, 43 (5), 811 -828. (doi:10.1177/0038038509341307).

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (2010) Reconceptualizing digital social inequality. Information, Communication and Society, 13 (7), 937-955. (doi:10.1080/1369118X.2010.499956).

Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Anne-Therese (2010) Changing the record: the inter-professional, subjective and embodied effects of electronic patient records. New Technology, Work and Employment, 25 (3), 210-222. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.2010.00249.x).

Carr, Leslie, Pope, Catherine and Halford, Susan (2010) Could the Web be a temporary glitch? WebSci10, Raleigh, United States. 25 - 26 Apr 2010. pp. 1-6 .

Halford, Susan, Pope, Catherine and Carr, Leslie (2010) A manifesto for Web Science. Erickson, John and Gradmann, Stefan (eds.) Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, Raleigh, United States. 25 - 26 Apr 2010. pp. 1-6 .

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Leslie and Pope, Catherine (2011) Exploring the UK Open-PSI community. SharePSI: Removing the Roadblocks to a Pan European Market for Public Sector Information Re-Use, , Brussels, Belgium. 09 - 10 May 2011. 4 pp .

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Leslie and Pope, Catherine (2012) Using mixed methods to track the growth of the Web: tracing open government data initiatives. World Wide Web 2012 (Web Science Track), , Lyon, France. 16 - 20 Apr 2012. 6 pp .

Davies, Huw C., Halford, Susan and Gibbins, Nicholas (2012) Digital natives? Investigating young people’s critical skills in evaluating web based information. WebSci 2012, , Evanston, United States. 22 - 24 Jun 2012. 4 pp .

Turnbull, Joanne, Prichard, Jane, Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan and Salisbury, Chris (2012) Reconfiguring the emergency and urgent care workforce: mixed methods study of skills and the everyday work of non-clinical call-handlers in the NHS. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 17 (4), 233-240. (doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2012.011141). (PMID:23024183)

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Les and Pope, Catherine (2012) Mixing Methods and Theory to Explore Web Activity. Third Annual Web Science Conference (WebSci2012), Evanston, United States. 9 pp .

Tinati, Ramine, Carr, Les, Halford, Susan and Pope, Catherine (2012) Exploring the Impact of Adopting Open Data in the UK Government. Digital Futures 2012, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. 3 pp .

Tinati, Ramine and Halford, Susan (2012) Interrogating big data for social scientific research - An analytical platform for visualising Twitter. Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges?, , Oxford, United Kingdom.

Halford, Susan, Pope, Catherine and Weal, Mark J. (2013) Digital futures? Sociological challenges and opportunities in the emergent semantic web. Sociology, 47 (1), 173-189. (doi:10.1177/0038038512453798).

Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan, Turnbull, Joanne, Prichard, Jane S., Calestani, Melania and May, Carl (2013) Using computer decision support systems in NHS emergency and urgent care: ethnographic study using normalisation process theory. BMC Health Services Research, 13 (111), 1-13. (doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-111).

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Les and Pope, Catherine (2014) Big Data: methodological challenges and approaches for sociological analysis. Sociology, 48 (4), 663-681. (doi:10.1177/0038038513511561).

Tinati, Ramine, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan and Pope, Catherine (2013) Exploring the Use of #OpenData in UK Open Government Data Community. Digital Economy 2013, , Salford, United Kingdom.

Tinati, Ramine, Halford, Susan, Carr, Leslie and Pope, Catherine (2013) The promise of big data: new methods for sociological analysis. The World Social Science Forum. 7 pp .

Tinati, Ramine, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan and Pope, Catherine (2013) The HTP Model: Understanding the development of social machines. SOCM Workshop, WWW2013: 22nd International World Wide Web conference, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 12 - 16 May 2013.

Turnbull, Joanne, Halford, Susan, Jones, Jeremy, May, Carl, Pope, Catherine, Prichard, Jane S. and Rowsell, A.C. (2014) The work, workforce, technology and organisational implications of the ‘111’ single point of access telephone number for urgent (non-emergency) care: a mixed-methods case study (HS&DR Journal Series, Volume 2:3) Southampton, GB. NIHR Journals Library 164pp. (doi:10.3310/hsdr02030).

Welch, Jennifer R., Halford, Susan and Weal, Mark J. (2015) Conceptualising the Web for post-conflict governance building in fragile states. Peacebuilding, 3 (1), 58-74. (doi:10.1080/21647259.2014.973673).

Tinati, Ramine, Carr, Leslie, Halford, Susan and Pope, Catherine (2014) (Re)integrating the Web: beyond ‘socio-technical’. International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'14), , Seoul, Korea, Republic of. 13 - 17 Apr 2014. 2 pp . (doi:10.1145/2567948.2576958).

Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan, Turnbull, J. and Prichard, Jane S. (2014) Cyborg practices: call-handlers and computerised decision support systems in urgent and emergency care. Health Informatics Journal, 20 (2), 118-126. (doi:10.1177/1460458213486470). (PMID:24810726)

Prichard, J., Turnbull, J., Halford, S. and Pope, C. (2014) Trusting technical change in call centres. Work, Employment and Society, 28 (5), 808-824. (doi:10.1177/0950017013510763).

Tinati, Ramine, Phillipe, Olivier, Pope, Catherine, Carr, Leslie and Halford, Susan (2014) Challenging social media analytics: Web Science perspectives. WebSci '14, , Bloomington, United States. 22 - 25 Jun 2014. 5 pp . (doi:10.1145/2615569.2615690).

Bazan, S., White, S., Staab, S., Vafopoulos, M., Halford, S., Hooper, Clare, Akkermans, H. and Weal, M. (2014) Web Science Education Workshop 2014. Web science education: sharing experiences and developing community. Web Science Education: Sharing experiences and developing community (workshop), ACM WebSci'14, Bloomington, United States. 22 Jun 2014.

Halford, Susan, Kukarenko, Natalia, Lotherington, Ann Therese and Obstfelder, Aud (2015) Technical change and the untroubling of gendered ageing in healthcare work. Gender, Work & Organization, 22 (5), 495-509. (doi:10.1111/gwao.12087).

Halford, Susan, Leonard, Pauline and Bruce, Katie (2012) Geographies of labour in the third sector: making hybrid workforces in place. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, New York, United States. 24 - 28 Feb 2012.

Leonard, Pauline, Halford, Susan and Bruce, Katie (2016) ‘The new degree?’ Constructing internships in the third sector. Sociology, 50 (2), 383-399. (doi:10.1177/0038038515574456).

Halford, Susan and Tinati, Ramine (2016) Crowdsourcing. In, Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell. (doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0779).

Halford, Susan, Leonard, Pauline and Bruce, Katie (2015) Geographies of labour in the third sector: making hybrid workforces in place. Environment and Planning A, 47 (11), 2355-2372. (doi:10.1177/0308518X15599295).

Welch, Jennifer, Halford, Susan and Weal, Mark J. (2015) Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and peacebuilding: a conceptual framework. WebSci '15, Oxford, United Kingdom. 27 - 30 Jun 2015. (doi:10.1145/2786451.2786479).

Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan, Tinati, Ramine and Weal, Mark (2014) What’s the big fuss about ‘big data’? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 19 (2), 67-68. (doi:10.1177/1355819614521181).

Halford, S., Hudson, M., Leonard, P., Parry, J. and Taylor, R. (2016) The new dynamics of work: a scoping study Southampton, GB. University of Southampton 53pp.

Britten, Nicky, Pope, Catherine, Halford, Susan and Richeldi, Luca (2016) Comment. What if we made stratified medicine work for patients? The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 4 (1), 8-10. (doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00499-3).

Lotherington, Ann Therese, Obstfelder, Aud and Halford, Susan (2016) No place for old women: a critical inquiry into age in later working life. Ageing & Society, 1-23. (doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000064).

Webster, Jack, Gibbins, Nicholas, Halford, Susan and Hracs, Brian J. (2016) Towards a theoretical approach for analysing music recommender systems as sociotechnical cultural intermediaries. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci '16). ACM Press. pp. 137-145 . (doi:10.1145/2908131.2908148).

Ogden, Jessica, Halford, Susan, Carr, Les and Earl, Graeme (2015) This is for everyone? Some steps towards decolonizing the Web. Digital Divides Workshop at Web Science 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom. 27 - 30 Jun 2015.

Pope, Catherine, Turnbull, Joanne, Halford, Susan, Pritchard, Jane, Calestani, Melania, Salisbury, Chris, May, Carl, Barrett, Christine and Lattimer, Valerie (2011) Ethnography and survey analysis of a computer decision support system in urgent out-of-hours, single point of access and emergency (999) care Southampton, GB. NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation Programme 188pp.

Liotsiou, Dimitra, Moreau, Luc and Halford, Susan (2016) Social influence: from contagion to a richer causal understanding. In Social Informatics: 8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part 2. vol. 10047, Springer. pp. 116-132 . (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47874-6_9).

Murthy, Dhiraj, Powell, Alison B., Tinati, Ramine, Anstead, Nick, Carr, Les, Halford, Susan and Weal, Mark (2016) Automation, algorithms, and politics| bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital. International Journal of Communication, 10, 4952-4971.

Halford, Susan and Savage, Mike (2017) Speaking sociologically with big data: symphonic social science and the future for big data research. Sociology, 51 (6), 1132-1148. (doi:10.1177/0038038517698639).

Ogden, Jessica, Halford, Susan and Carr, Leslie (2017) Observing web archives: The case for an ethnographic study of web archiving. In Proceedings of WebSci’17, Troy, NY, USA., June 25–28, 2017. ACM Press. 10 pp . (In Press) (doi:10.1145/3091478.3091506).

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Published: 30 January 2019
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Centre for Health Technologies co-directors Dr Adriane Chapman and Prof. Neil White with Prof. Peter Smith, Director of the Institute of Life Sciences, at the FortisNet event

Academics and health professionals are uniting to solve challenging clinical problems through a new Centre for Health Technologies (CHT) at the University of Southampton.

The multidisciplinary centre, based in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), will enable new collaborations that inspire healthcare, wellbeing and rehabilitation technologies.

Researchers formally launched the CHT on Thursday at the third annual meeting of the Institute for Life Sciences’ (IfLS) FortisNet hub.

Dr Adriane Chapman, CHT co-director, says: “ECS has a strong track record of major achievements in health-related projects and continues to host a number of research grants in this domain. This research requires an active partnership with health practitioners who can assess the problem statement and solution evaluation, but this currently rests on individual relationships and navigating complex organisation structures.

“The new CHT will help overcome these hurdles and spark new innovative and pioneering research that will make a difference to people’s lives. I look forward to working closely with health practitioners, industry professionals and policy makers to address national and global challenges.â€?

The CHT is addressing four Centre Themes of optimising treatment and behaviours, novel medical devices and systems, community health and wellness, and AI and health. It is co-directed by Age and Professor Neil White, with support from an advisory committee that includes expertise from senior practising clinicians and staff from the IfLS and faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences.

In 2019, the Centre plans to create a first health-based project that draws upon several ECS research strengths, prepare for student-led Group Design Projects that explore initial relationships and host a joint event with ECS’s Centre for Machine Intelligence.

The CHT draws together researchers involved in health-based research from the Agents, Interaction and Complexity; Biomedical Electronics; Cyber Security; Smart Electronic Materials and Systems; Sustainable Electronic Technologies; Vision, Learning and Control; and Web and Internet Science groups.

Current collaborative research projects within the groups include Wearable Movement Sensor Development for Rehabilitation Technologies and Personalised Long-Term Follow-up of Cochlear Implant Patients Using Remote Care.

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VivoPlex, a spinout company from University of Southampton, have raised £3m to advance a biosensor to help couples with fertility problems.

Interdisciplinary researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), the Institute for Life Sciences (IfLS), and Medicine are celebrating a £3m fundraising round by University of Southampton spin-out company Vivoplex. The funding will be used to advance a biosensor to help couples with fertility problems.

Vivoplex Group Ltd was set up in 2015 to continue development of the small, implantable, batteryless sensor that can help understand and improve fertility.

The financing round was led by existing investors with support from some new high net worth individuals and family offices. The proceeds will be used in the clinical development of the VivoPlex product, CE marking and development of a finalised production-ready device.

Vivoplex, a leader in real time and accurate intra-uterine monitoring, has also announced the appointment of experienced life sciences executive Joanna Smart as the company’s new CEO. Joanna, formerly the company’s COO, will lead the organisation as it takes its intra-uterine monitor through the next stages of product, clinical and regulatory development.

VivoPlex’s product is a wireless, battery-free sensor that monitors three influential factors in the uterine environment - pH, temperature and oxygen level - for the optimisation of fertility treatment and uterine health. It is the first insertable wireless device (no bigger than an intra-uterine device or coil) for the measurement of these parameters in vivo, and is expected to have a significant impact on low IVF success rates which currently stand at 25-30%. A wearable, in the form of washable, discreet briefs, provides wireless power to the device and transmits data to proprietary software for use by the fertility specialist. It has generated positive results in early studies, and has potential in a range of other applications.

The company brings together a multidisciplinary team of clinical fertility experts and world-class biosensor and digital technology engineers - led by the University’s Professor Hywel Morgan (Deputy Director of the IfLS and a Professor of Bioelectronics in ECS), and Professor Ying Cheong (Professor of Reproductive Medicine) - with experienced corporate and business development executives.

A future 30-patient clinical pilot study is being supported by the UK NIHR’s i4i Programme through funding to the University of Southampton in a joint project with VivoPlex.

Joanna Smart has worked with VivoPlex since 2016 and has played a key role in operational, product and corporate development. She has over 15 years’ experience in the healthcare sector in Europe and the US, at investment bank Nomura International and with senior business development roles at US biotechnology companies Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Chiron Corporation. Joanna has also worked with several companies as an independent consultant.

Dr Chris Dickson, Chairman of VivoPlex, said: “VivoPlex is pleased to have closed its Series A, which provides the funding to take our innovative intra-uterine monitor through its important next stages of development. I’d like to thank existing and new investors for their support and look forward to working with them as we take the company forward.

“Joanna has played a significant role in the evolution of VivoPlex and its intra-uterine monitor to this stage. Her background and experience make her the ideal leader of VivoPlex as it grows and develops, and I am pleased to welcome her to the CEO role.â€?

To find out more visit www.vivoplex.com

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