Email: smartthinking (@) ukideas.com
Blog: http://thetelecareblog.blogspot.com/

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1999 - Present: Founder and CEO of SMART Thinking

Jan 2010 - Present: Research Associate
School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London, SW1 8WA.

• Developing research projects on HIS, eHealth, mHealth and using technology to support wellness and healthy ageing.

April 2007 – 2009: Telecare Coordinator
London Borough of Barnet, Barnet House, 1255 High Road, Whetstone, N20 0EJ.

• Project manage, develop and support the Telecare service for Barnet in compliance with legislation and Barnet work practices; Providing supporting evidence to Senior management and Telecare statistics; Line manage Telecare support staff; Train staff in Telecare; Draft and negotiate Telecare outcome based Service Specifications and Service Level Agreements; Writing pathways and protocols for referrers and partners; Manage Telecare partnerships and Telecare within the ICES contract; Designing internal and external publicity and information on Telecare including newsletters; Representing Barnet at external events.

January 2002- March 2007:  Research Associate
Computing Department, Lancaster University, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster LA1 4WA.

• Undertaking social research and consultancy within the area of so cio-technical system design, assistive technology and dependability, with older and disabled people as part of the DIRC, EQUATOR and Microsoft Research and currently Xerox projects; Writing and editing conference, book and journal papers and reviewing projects and journal and conference papers; Submitting proposals, presenting papers internationally at conferences and invited events; Managing research co-workers; Teaching and supporting students; Organising conferences and events.

January 1999- December 2001: Research Fellow
Scott Sutherland School, Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, AB10 1FR.

• Co-manage the ‘CUSTODIAN’ IV framework EU IST project; Developing effective strategies for translating field data and peoples’ needs into the CUSTODIAN ‘smart home’ software tool; Managing the “Evaluation Workpackage” (WP7) of CUSTODIAN; Developing and undertaking presentations, workshops and papers; Consultancy with Aberdeen Social Work Department. Undertaking a research project concerning wider access to the university from socio-economically disadvantaged schools in Aberdeen.

April 1996-August 1998: Research Fellow
Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies, University of Glasgow, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ.

• Working on two research projects concerning community care.

February 1995-March 1996: Assistant Researcher
Department of Education, University of Aberdeen, MacRobert Building, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA.

• Working on three research projects”.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 2003-2009: Ph.D. in Computer Science for ‘User-Centred Design of Assistive Technology Systems’, Computing Department, Lancaster University – Ph.D. Awarded Dec 2009.

• 1995-1996: Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Management: (PGCEM) Education Department, University of Aberdeen.

• 1990: BA Sociology Honours: Sociology Department, Birmingham Polytechnic.  Specialisation: Social Research.

KEY EXPERIENCE

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• On editorial board of Health Informatics Journal and Journal of Assistive Technology
• 2009 Interviewed for Hometoys for June/July Edition of the Emagazine http://www.hometoys.com/ezine/09.05/dewsbury/index.htm ); Consultancy for Which? Magazine for article in Assistive Technology and Telecare, this appeared in Feb. 2009.

• 2008 Invited to join ALIP panel of Experts as consultant; Invited to join the Managing Long Term Conditions Advisory Board.

• 2007 Invited to join DH Care Networks (Telecare) Telecare Advisory Network (TAN); Interviewed for piece in Guardian Newspaper; Web based tutor for University Master level in Assistive Technology for the University of Trieste, Engineering department.

• 2006-2009 Co-Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association  (IMIA) working group on 'Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living’'

• 2005: Interviewed by ‘Therapy Weekly’ for article entitled ‘Clients failed by vital gap in OT training’; Interviewed for an article in the Social Care (S2) section of the Guardian on Telecare systems entitled ‘Balance of risk for Telecare’; Interview with John Cavanagh of Radio Scotland for ‘IEE Monitor 2005’ CD-ROM, on ‘Smart Homes for Disabled People’, recorded at Bay Radio Station, Lancaster; Telecare consultant’ and interviewee with Cathy MacDonald for Radio Scotland’s ‘Medical Matters’.

• 2004: Completion of final (54th) assisted dwelling in Aberdeen for adults with Severe Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD); Co-chair, panelist and co-organiser of HEAT 2004 held in York and co-editor/ co-author of the proceedings; Radio interview on BBC Radio Lancashire regarding the Consultancy work in Aberdeen and various press interviews.; Feature article in the 2004 edition of the Lancaster University alumni magazine ‘STEPS’ (page 22).

• 2004-2007: Teaching Person-Centred Design session on the Msc Dependability course, Computing Department, Lancaster University.

• March 2003- August 2004: Consultancy for Aberdeen Social Work department advising on assisted dwelling for 54 adults with learning disabilities.

• 2003: teaching sessions on the Msc ‘Inclusive Environments’ course, Reading University; Winner of the “Gitte Lindgaard” Award for Best Paper at Ozchi 2003; Winner of Best Paper at the 2nd BCS HCI Group Workshop on Culture and HCI Bridging Cultural and Digital Divides.

• 2001: Organiser, Symposium Chair and presenter at workshop at EDRA 2001, Edinburgh; 2001: Various Teaching sessions on Architecture Courses at RGU on ‘smart’ homes.

• 2000: Main Organiser and presenter for all the European workshop presentations of the CUSTODIAN tool and designer of the first residential ‘smart home’ in Dundee as well as Dundee's first ‘smart’ demonstrator flat.

AWARDS
• Winner of the “Gitte Lindgaard” Award for Best Paper at Ozchi 2003.
• Winner of Best Paper at the 2nd BCS HCI Group Workshop on Culture and HCI Bridging Cultural and Digital Divides, June 2003.

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Guy Currently works for King's College, London.

Prior to that he was working for Barnet Council, he worked for Lancaster University on the DIRC project (the Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration www.dirc.org.uk) on Ubiquitous computing and older people that developed a tablet-based software tool to support older people in their own home by enabling them to have informal contact with other older people and friends and family.  Prior to this he worked on the European Union 4th Framework project CUSTODIAN (http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/search/research/sustainablehousing/custodian/home.html).  CUSTODIAN developed a software tool to design smart homes for older and disabled people.

He is the webmaster of a highly acclaimed educational website called SMART Thinking (www.smartthinking.ukideas.com) and a very successful blog called the Telecare Blog (http://thetelecareblog.blogspot.com).  He was also the Co-Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) working group on “Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living’ (http://www.health-smarthomes.org/)’ (2006-2009). His academic desires were not lost and this is demonstrated through the fact that he was interviewed for Hometoys Emagazine (www.hometoys.com); acted as a consultant for Barnet Council to Which? magazine (http://www.which.co.uk/advice/long-term-care/long-term-care-assistive-technology/index.jsp),  as well as become a member of the expert panel on the ALIP project (http://www.dapforum.org/); the Managing Long Term Conditions Advisory Board (http://www.managinglongtermconditions.com/); the DH Care Networks (Telecare)Telecare Advisory Network (TAN) (http://www.dhcarenetworks.org.uk/IndependentLivingChoices/Telecare/AdviceonTelecare/TelecareAdvisoryNetwork); The London Telecare Group (http://www.londontelecare.com) and have been interviewed by the Guardian and other papers since coming in to post.  Guy also had a paper accepted for Interact 2009 as well as undertaken a number of publications and presentations in the last two years since leaving academia. 

Publications for Guy are available here

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