Leonie is a Digital Health Researcher at the Centre for Health Technology. With a background in Psychology, she completed her PhD on the use of social robots for delivering behaviour change interventions, exploring human-robot interaction within therapeutic contexts.

Her current research focuses on the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of digital health technologies in health and social care settings. Leonie collaborates closely with a range of stakeholders, including health and social care workers, charity groups, SMEs, technology developers and more, with the aim to develop and assess healthcare technologies in partnership with end users. She also has experience in translating co-design findings into practical toolkits to support wider dissemination and uptake. 

Current Projects

• Principal Investigator: Evaluating a Virtual Reality Experience for Stress Reduction among Emergency Services Control Centre Staff

• Researcher: Acutely Sick Kid Digital Interventions for Parents in Under-Represented Communities (ASKDIPaC) – a participatory study using modified grounded theory

Previous Projects

• EPIC Project – eHealth Productivity and Innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

• GOALD – Generating Older Active Lives Digitally

Teaching

• Digital Health workshops for the future workforce

• Research Methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches)