Projects per year
Personal profile
Personal Statement
Kieren is a Senior Research Fellow within the Digital Health and Wellness team at the University of Strathclyde. He also holds roles with the Future Hospital initiative at the University and is a co-lead for the Strathclyde Living lab. Kieren is looking to build both national and international networks that can create inclusive ‘future hospitals’, where digital, people and systems work together optimsing health and wellness for all. More specifically, Kieren has a long standing interest in the areas of informal (unpaid) carers and those facing cognitive decline and neurodegenerative conditions.
He is an experienced researcher having worked across many related fields such as: clinical study designs, epidemiology, digital health and the development and implementation of innovations to impact upon healthcare. He has worked with, and alongside the World Health Organization in Geneva, where his role was focused on the design of an Internet-based intervention to educate and empower informal carers of people with dementia (https://www.isupportfordementia.org/en). He has published 40 peer review articles (including those in press) to date and currently supervises 5 PhD students. He holds a facilitating group member role within the Royal Society of Edinburgh ‘Young Academy of Scotland’ alongside an Honorary Research Fellowship with NHS Lanarkshire.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development 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. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Dementia
- Technology
- Alzheimer's disease
- person-centred
- public health
- Mental health
- systematic reviews
- meta analyses
- Digital health
- Co-design
- Citizen science
Fingerprint
- 6 Similar Profiles
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
-
Mobilising Scotland’s assets in equitable ways for epidemic control (MOSAEC)
Flowers, P. (Principal Investigator), Clark, R. (Co-investigator), Egan, K. (Co-investigator), MacIntyre, G. (Co-investigator), Robertson, D. (Co-investigator) & Robertson, C. (Co-investigator)
MRC (Medical Research Council)
1/09/24 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
-
Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University / R230557-209
Egan, K. (Co-investigator)
16/05/24 → 15/05/25
Project: Research - Internally Allocated
-
Physical activity mobile app (CareFit) for informal carers of people with dementia: protocol for a feasibility and adaptation study
Egan, K., Macdonald, B., Hodgson, W., Kirk, A., Fawcett, B., Dunlop, M. D., Maguire, R., Flynn, G., Scott, J. & Windle, G., 12 Sept 2024, In: JMIR Research Protocols. 13, 9 p., e53727.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Final Report of the Evaluation of Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Services
Maguire, R., van der Meer, R., Egan, K., Thompson, N. & Connaghan, J., 29 Feb 2024, Glasgow: University of Strathclyde. 36 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open AccessFile94 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
-
Best Poster Prize: Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Festival
Egan, K. (Recipient), Dec 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
-
DigiFest Best Poster Prize
Egan, K. (Recipient), 14 Dec 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
-
Health and Care Futures: thematic areas workshop
Clark, R. (Organiser), Maguire, R. (Organiser), Sutter, J. (Organiser), Weir, N. M. (Invited speaker), Knifton, L. (Invited speaker), Shu, W. (Invited speaker), Quinn, N. (Invited speaker), Maier, A. (Participant), Kazakidi, A. (Participant), Harris, B. (Participant), Carswell, H. (Participant), Donnachie, C. (Participant), Corrigan, D. (Participant), Congreve, E. (Participant), Rai, H. (Participant), Megiddo, I. (Participant), Smith, K. (Participant), Nguyen, L. K. N. (Participant), McCann, L. (Participant), Gray, L. (Participant), Dennany, L. (Participant), Fossati, M. (Participant), Parra Rodriguez, M. (Participant), Smith, M. (Participant), Miller, M. (Participant), Rattray, N. (Participant), Connolly, P. (Participant), Rodgers, P. (Participant), Atkinson, R. (Participant), van der Meer, R. (Participant), Mueller, T. (Participant), Inns, T. (Participant), Cohen, W. (Participant), Luo, X. (Participant) & Egan, K. (Organiser)
30 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
-
Rapid Cancer Diagnostic Services (RCDS) in Scotland
Thompson, N. (Invited speaker), Primrose, D. (Contributor), Roberts, K. (Contributor), Hodkinson, P. (Contributor), Barnstaple, N. (Contributor), Maguire, R. (Contributor), Egan, K. (Contributor), Connaghan, J. (Contributor), Fragkandrea Nixon, I. (Contributor), Innes, R. (Contributor) & van der Meer, R. (Contributor)
10 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk