Professor Marilyn Lennon
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I am a Professor in Digital Health and Care in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at 勛圖tv. I am founder and one of the directors of the Digital Health and Wellness Group (DHaWG) at 勛圖tv. We are leading multidisciplinary researchers in the area of user centered design, evaluation and implementation of a range of digial technologies and services for supoprting health and wellbeing of individuals and the population. My background is in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), usability, user centred design, and evaluation. The current focus of my work is novel wearable and mobile technologies for care at home from remote monitoring (e.g. precdictve falls monitoring), to remote diagnosis and screening technoloigies (e.g. colon capsule technology evaluations), to smart home and tech for social care more generally (including for example medicine management, and self management of diabetes). I have a strong background in working with external clients and stakeholders including NHS, charities and health and social care practitioners to generate requirements for and evaluate the impact of large health tech projects. I am really interested in the social and technical barriers and facilitators to getting health technologies to work in practice in the real world and how we can evaluate them robustly but more quickly so that innovative ideas can have real impact.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 13/5/2025
- Recipient
- 23/4/2014
- Recipient
- 29/6/2013
- Recipient
- 7/4/2013
Qualifications
Marilyn has a first class BSc degree in Psychology (Glasgow 1998), a PhD in Computing Science (Glasgow 2002) and a post graduate diploma in academic practice meaning she is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). She is also an active member of the Asscociation for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Publications
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- Journal of Participatory Medicine Vol 18 (2026)
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- JMIR Diabetes Vol 11 (2026)
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- JMIR Formative Research Vol 10 (2026)
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- BMJ Open Vol 16 (2026)
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- BMC Geriatrics Vol 25 (2025)
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- Primary Health Care Research & Development Vol 26 (2025)
Teaching
Marilyn is currently course director for a taught Masters in Digital Health Systems. She has taught at all levels but specialises in level 1 UG and level 5 PG teaching including Information Management and Database Fundamentals, Human Computer Interaction, and Design of Usable Systems. She has supervised 5 PhDs (2 completed so far) and over 100 level 4 and level 5 final year projects.
Research Interests
Marilyn has over 20 years experience in the user centered design and evaluation of interactive technologies. She has been involved in various projects involving smart home technology, mobile lifestyle app design and development and the implementation and evaluation of telecare, telehealth and assisted living technologies both in the lab and 'in the wild'.
Professional Activities
- Contributor
- 4/3/2026
- Organiser
- 3/3/2026
- Contributor
- 21/11/2025
- Recipient
- 25/9/2025
- Speaker
- 4/9/2025
- Visiting researcher
- 8/7/2025
Projects
- Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Clift, Lee (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Damien (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) Weir, Catriona (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
- McCann, Lisa (Principal Investigator) Wani, Carolina (Post Grad Student) Lennon, Marilyn (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Lennon, Marilyn (Principal Investigator)
- Project codesigning a digital tool to allow people to tell their story once and be directed to community based support for falls prevention - Health Foundation 瞿400,000)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Lennon, Marilyn (Principal Investigator) Kernaghan, David (Researcher) Gibson, Ryan Colin (Researcher)
- Grant based KE - 瞿40k income to 勛圖tv (from 瞿400k awarded to leads NHS Lanarkshire) Health Foundation
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Lennon, Marilyn (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
Contact
Professor
Marilyn
Lennon
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: marilyn.lennon@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted