Team

Professor Mark Hawley

Professor Mark Hawley is a Professor of Health Services Research at The University of Sheffield, UK, where he leads the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Research Group. Professor Hawley is also Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at Barnsley Hospital, where he is Head of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, whose AT Team provides specialist electronic assistive technology services to people with disabilities in South Yorkshire.

Over the last 20 years, Professor Hawley has worked as a Clinician and Researcher – providing, researching, developing and evaluating assistive technology, telehealth and telecare products and services for disabled people, older people and people with long-term conditions.

Professor Luc de Witte

Professor Luc de Witte is a Professor of Technology for Health Care from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. His research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of technology-enabled innovations in health and social care. Professor Witte also works on projects in India and some other low- middle-income countries. These international projects also focus on the use of technology to improve the health and well-being of people with support needs in low-resource settings.

Over the past 25 years, Professor Witte has been working as an application-oriented researcher in the field of long-term care and assistive technology. Professor Witte is also an active board member of the AAATE (Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe) and the Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organisations (GAATO). President of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe. Professor Witte also is the Head of the Research Group Technology for Health at the Health Innovation Centre of Expertise, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. His current research can be divided into four themes: assistive technology service delivery; care robotics; digital healthcare solutions; and technologies applied to global health challenges. 

Dr Stephen Potter

Dr Stephen Potter's interests lie in artificial intelligence, and more specifically in the applications of AI to everyday problems. Following a BSc degree in computer science at the University of Durham, he studied for an MSc in applied AI at the Universities of Aberdeen and Paris (V), and went on to complete a doctorate at the University of Bath, where he investigated the role of AI in engineering design.

Dr Potter worked for over a decade in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, combining academic research with technology transfer consultancy. Later he worked at Lancaster University as a business technology project manager, before joining CATCH in 2015 as a translational research associate.

During his career Dr Potter has worked with clients and colleagues from a variety of sectors to develop and implement practical solutions to difficult problems. He has authored over 50 academic papers of variable quality across a range of fields.

Andrew Conroy, Astraline Commercial Director

Andy brings thirteen years of contact centre management and technology experience, ten years of commercial sales experience and while at Astraline he managed their early adoption of the TSA Quality Standards Framework (QSF) in 2018, overseeing their digital program and providing digital transformation subject matter expertise to social housing organisations.

Currently Andrew is supporting several funded research projects alongside Sheffield and Liverpool John Moores Universities.

Keli Ashby, Community Wellbeing Officer, JJH

Keli is a Community Wellbeing Officer for Johnnie Johnson Housing with 2 years of experience in supporting, advising and empowering the community of Yorkshire & Derbyshire. In total Keli has 20 years of experience working with society's most vulnerable and providing them with happiness, satisfaction and team morale within the community. She has worked in various settings such as housing associations, not-for-profit organisations, and charities, as well as a global Technology-Enabled Care provider.

Keli’s true passion is to work with people using a Person-Centred approach, that gives them the opportunity to live the best life they can live, in whatever way that may be for them.