Health, Performance and Wellbeing

The applications of this theme are broad and span across ageing, physical, mental and emotional states. Its breadth and depth offer plenty of scope for investigation.

Sub-themes

This theme covers a wide range of areas and is structured under three main subthemes to preserve the breadth of the theme, whilst giving order to the interdisciplinary mix and emphasising research strengths across the institution.

Research within as well as across sub-themes will facilitate creation of larger multidisciplinary teams that can more effectively address the complex challenges that align with this theme.

Creative

• Music and art in healthcare
• Creative technologies for health
• Art and wellbeing
• Music therapy
• Performance and health

Community

• Public health – global and local networks
• Community health
• Clinical healthcare
• Integrated healthcare
• Reducing health inequalities

Digital

• Big Data and IT for healthcare
• Diagnostic technologies
• Nanomedicine
• Drug discovery
• Digital twins
• Computational modelling and robotics

Our team

Health, Performance and Wellbeing is led by Fiona Bodle (Assistant Director Strategic Innovation), Prof Selim Cellek (Professor of Health and Biomedicine; Medical Technology Research Centre – MTRC), Dr I-Shuo Chen (Senior Lecturer of Organisational Behaviour), Prof Helen Odell-Miller (Director, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research – CIMTR), Prof Shahina Pardhan (Director, Vision and Eye Research Institute – VERI), Prof Barbara Pierscionek (Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation); MTRC), Professor Lee Smith (Professor of Public Health), and Dr Kirk Woolford (Associate Professor of Creative Technologies).

Above, left to right: Prof Shahina Pardhan, Prof Selim Cellek, Prof Helen Odell-Miller CBE, Prof Graham Ball (Director of MTRC), Dr Kirk Woolford, Prof Lee Smith, Prof Barbara Pierscionek, Prof Yvonne Barnett (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation), Fiona Bodle (Strategic Innovation)