Our research portfolio covers a range of innovative projects focused on the application of AI and digital solutions across various sectors, including healthcare, education and human resource management. Past projects have investigated operationalising AI in healthcare, evaluation of digital transformation initiatives, and the adoption of enterprise systems in practice. Additionally, we engage in training activities, offering courses on digital transformation, AI for business, and digital innovation.
Ongoing funded projects include:
- Independent mixed-methods evaluation of the NHS AI Lab
- Development of a monitoring and alert system to support people who are at risk of drug overdose through co-creation activities
- Generative AI in education: An analysis of student acceptance, uses and outcomes
- Legitimizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human Resource Management (HRM) tools through Responsible AI: Insights from a longitudinal Analysis of AI for HRM vendors
- Development and evaluation of a complex ePrescribing-based antimicrobial stewardship (ePAMS+) intervention for hospitals
Completed funded projects include:
- Evaluation of Global Digital Exemplar Programme
- Exploration of current and perceived future uses of AI in electrocardiograms
- Evaluation for Connected Health Systems on Design for Ageing project
- Formative evaluation of the Decision Support Platform for the Scottish National Decision Support Programme
- Generative AI in higher education: Utility and institutional based explanations of user acceptance
- Digital transformation of work: AI in audit
- The evaluation of ePrescribing systems in English Hospitals research programme
- Mapping and evaluating the market for ePrescribing systems
- User innovation during enterprise system adoption and use
Examples of training and engagement activities include:
- Delivering and developing courses for practitioners and policymakers on Fundamentals of Leading Digital Transformation in different sectors including health and social care, marketing, and banking
- Developing and delivering an MBA course on AI for Business
- Invited talk on inter-organisational innovation in public sector organisations at the South-East Scotland NHS Innovation Intrapreneur Course
- Industry-academia Thinkaton on Robotics in Healthcare
- Industry-academia Thinkaton on Integrating person/patient-generated data with electronic health records