RESEARCH TEAM
Thomas Webb is an experienced behavioural scientist, who has published over 100 papers on topics like motivation, self-monitoring, planning, and emotion regulation. The TURBBO project provided the opportunity to address a long-standing limitation in behavioural science; namely, the tendency for scientists (and practitioners and other stakeholders) to focus on one behaviour in isolation, without thinking about whether and how changes in that behaviour (e.g., physical activity) might impact other behaviours (e.g., nutrition, recycling).
Dr. Vitaveska Lanfranchi is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Computing at The University of Sheffield in the OAK group and in Sheffield Teaching Hospital. Her research has a wide interdisciplinary nature, both in industry and in academia, focusing on the intersection between ubiquitous computing, knowledge capture and visualization and human computer interaction in fields as diverse as emergency response, aerospace and more recently wellbeing. Her research aims to use user participatory design methods to develop novel methodologies and interfaces for ubiquitous and mobile computing, by employing sensing and tracking technologies to monitor user actions and analyse the data to reveal patterns and create intelligent systems that could influence users’ decision making and behavior. Vita holds a PhD and a Doctorate from the University of Torino, Italy.
Paul Norman is a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on understanding the determinants of health behaviour and the development evidence-based interventions to change health behaviour. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has also co-edited one of the key books in this area, Predicting and Changing Health Behaviour. The TURBBO project provides an opportunity to examine whether there are ‘core’ health behaviours that are central to health and well-being, whether certain health behaviours inhibit or support other health behaviours, and whether more effective interventions that target multiple health behaviours can be developed.
Dr. Mazumdar is a Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics. His research explores developing techniques and mechanisms for reducing the barriers that impede user communities' understanding of vast complex multidimensional datasets. He conducts interdisciplinary research on highly engaging, interactive, and visual mechanisms in conjunction with complex querying techniques for seamless navigation, exploration, and understanding of complex datasets. Dr Mazumdar has applied my research in a wide range of application domains, such as Aerospace Engineering, Sports Informatics, Crisis/Emergency Management, Smart Cities, and Mobility Planning.
As a part of his research, he collaborates with large multi-disciplinary teams of academics, industry partners, city councils, and planners. He has worked in several extensive research and industrial projects funded by the European Union, Innovate UK, and the European Space Agency. Dr Mazumdar's research includes: (1) Studying and developing data and visual analytic techniques to analyse massive volumes of dynamic data in near real-time; (2) Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Techniques for observing physical phenomena, events and environments; (3) User Interface Development, Human-Computer Interaction and user-centred Design; and (4) Assistive technologies to support independent activities of daily living.
Richard Rowe is a Professor of Psychology at University of Sheffield. His research addresses the causes, outcomes and reduction of risky and antisocial behaviours. This work highlights often counter-intuitive associations between behaviours such as aggression, anxiety and risky driving that appear very different on the surface. The TURBBO project offers an opportunity to examine the underlying structures that can explain why these sorts of behaviours co-occur much more often than chance would predict.
Alex is a health psychology researcher primarily interested in the role sleep plays in the experience of mental health difficulties and the impact of sleep on wider health behaviours. His research aims to extend current knowledge of the relationship between sleep and mental health by examining two key areas; (1) research investigating how poor sleep might exert an effect on mental health by examining possible mechanisms of action; and (2) testing the effect of interventions designed to target problems sleeping on subsequent mental health and behaviour outcomes.
Vyv Huddy is a clinical psychologist and researcher who has applied qualitative and quantitative methods across varied mental health and criminal justice settings to develop, test and implement psychological interventions. This work has been co-produced with a wide range of stakeholders and organisations to ensure interventions as acceptable to users and feasible for practitioners. I am excited to be part of the TURBBO project team because is a rare opportunity to develop tools that enable the behavioural science knowledge base to be communicated to varied actors, in diverse contexts and with differing objectives to ensure this vast corpus of evidence has maximal impact and utility.
Harriet Baird is a Lecturer in The Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Her research seeks to understand the factors that influence people’s behaviour in a range of different contexts (e.g., behaviours related to people’s health and sustainability) and in the design and evaluation of interventions designed to promote positive changes in people’s behaviour. As part of the TURBBO project, Harriet is leading a systematic review that seeks to explore how existing ontologies conceptualise human behaviour.
Fatima Maikore is a post-doctoral research associate at The Unviersity of Sheffield. Her main research focus is on semantic technologies and how to use intelligent applications and agents to solve practical problems in different domains. Specifically, she is interested in building ontologies for modelling knowledge found within domains and then creating intelligent systems to utilise the knowledge base. Fatima has experience in developing ontologies for domains such as autonomous robotics, clinical laboratories and psychology and is also interested in knowledge representation and knowledge extraction from medical text using natural language processing techniques.
Muhammad Basir is a post-doctoral research associate at The Unviersity of Sheffield. His research focus is to facilitate the implementation of information systems in institutes. Basir is working on the TURBBO project to understand how different behaviours are related and how one can measure their impact on each other. In order to do so, Basir is to design and develop a data analysis tool which can give users access to an extensive (yet not exhaustive) database of behavioural studies which he/she can then use to analyse two or more behaviours.
Sneha Roychowdhury is a Research Associate at The Unviersity of Sheffield. She joined the TURBBO project after completion of masters in Satistics and Computing and subsequent completion of masters in Data Science . She is presently working on the TURBBO project to analyse and visualise the relationship between behaviours in the form of an expandable and interactive network diagram. In respect to this she is developing a meta-analyis and a visualisation tool to analyse and visualise the ontology of behaviours .