Dr Theo Fotis, Principle Lecturer in Nursing from the University of Brighton’s School of Health Sciences, has been shortlisted for a Darzi Fellowship award. The award will fund a Darzi Fellow for a year to work as part of the collaborative Leading Places project.
17 January 2017
Leading Places, an HEFCE, UUK and LGA initiative, aims to enable leaders from universities and local authorities to work together on pilot projects to help their local areas increase growth, re-design public services and strengthen relationships between communities and academic institutions.
Dr Fotis’ proposed project is for a ‘Digital Health Test Bed’, which will develop a living lab in the City of Brighton and Hove, where a network of technical champions will focus on testing different digital devices and applications to reduce social isolation and remotely monitor vital signs, activities and emotions of older members of the community.
Applications are now open for the Darzi Fellowship, the Brighton Fellow will work closely with the Leading Places team in developing a test bed and network of tech champions with access to the Brighton Digital Catapult Centre, and its network of SME innovators and researchers, who are developing digital services on a 5G Testbed.
Dr Theo Fotis, Principle Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Brighton’s School of Health Sciences.
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