About

The Health Research from Home Partnership is an interdisciplinary group who have all conducted, or contributed to, successful research using smartphones and wearables.

Led by The University of Manchester, we bring together leading academics, industry partners and public contributors to advance this notoriously difficult field of research. We do this by sharing the valuable lessons we have learnt.

We received funding from the UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council (UKRI MRC) to carry out our important work. Our partnership will run until December 2026.

During that time, we want to build a collaborative, interdisciplinary community and share our know-how, skills and experience to enable future research using smartphones and wearables. We will also run two research projects at the cutting edge of Health Research from Home, which require data from smartphones and wearables to be linked to other health data. The projects will answer clinically important questions and enhance our understanding of how best to conduct such linkage studies.

The Health Research from Home partnership is supported by, and based at, the Christabel Pankhurst Institute, whose mission is to pioneer responsible health technology research and innovation, nurturing a challenge-driven culture, enhancing patient outcomes, and stimulating economic growth. The Christabel Pankhurst Institute is a partnership between the University of Manchester, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Health Innovation Manchester, Bruntwood SciTech and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

On this page:

• Who we are
• Our partners
• Meet The University of Manchester team
• Meet the Co-investigator team
• Meet the industry partners

Who we are

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Our partners

The Health Research from Home Partnership is an interdisciplinary team. We’re made up of academics and public contributors who have all worked on successful health research using smartphones and wearables. The Partnership is led by The University of Manchester with integral support from each of our partners.

The organisations involved include:

Logos for Kings College London, GSK, University of Oxford, Google, Verily, Health Data Research UK, Imperial College London, The University of Edinburgh, and University of Cambridge.

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Meet The University of Manchester team

Will Dixon, Principal Investigator Health Research from Home, Professor of Digital Epidemiology at The University of Manchester and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital

Rachel Nagy, Programme Lead, Health Research from Home

Elaine Mackey, Information Governance Manager at The University of Manchester

Lynn Laidlaw, Patient and Public contributor and researcher    

Coral Stevenson, Project Administrator, Health Research from Home    

Lucy Serridge, Communications Lead, Health Research from Home  

Charlotte Sharp, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Rheumatologist at The University of Manchester

Shuai Shao, Research Associate, Health Research from Home

Sabine van der Veer, Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics and Health Research from Home Co-Investigator

Ayobami Esther Olanrewaju, PhD Student, Health Research from Home

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Meet the Co-Investigator team

Professor Richard Dobson, King’s College London

Professor Claire Steves, King’s College London

Professor Jennifer Quint, Imperial College London

Professor Christopher Yau, University of Oxford

Dr Soren Brage, University of Cambridge

Professor Cathie Sudlow, Health Data Research UK

Dr Amos Folarin, Kings College London

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Industry partners

 Tyler Trueg, Verily Life Sciences

Susan Thomas, Google

Valentin Hamy, Glaxo Smith Kline

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