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Dr Alan Godfrey

Associate Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

Dr Godfrey is lead for his departments Digital Health & Wellbeing research group. He was UoA11 Deputy lead for REF2021. He received his BEng in electronic engineering and PhD in biomedical electronics from the University of Limerick, Ireland. He also holds the MBA from Newcastle University. 

His major research is in algorithms for data science and analytics in healthcare. This includes areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and multidimensional signal processing. He has published over 100 papers on those topics in various engineering and medical journals from a portfolio of translational-based research. He serves as Deputy Editor for npj/Nature Digital Medicine, Editor for Maturitias and Associate Editor for Journal of NeuroEngineering & Rehabilitation. He is an International Advisory board member for Physiological Measurement. Dr Godfrey is a Member of the Institution Engineering Technology (MIET) and Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SMIEEE). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Alan Godfrey

Campus Address

Room 307
CiS Building


Bioinformatics, Connected Health, Healthcare Technology, Sports Technology, Wearable Systems

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • An automated approach to instrumenting the up-on-the-toes test(s), Zahid, S., Celik, Y., Godfrey, A., Buckley, J. 26 Jun 2023, In: Biomechanics
  • A proposed pervasive smartphone application for personalised gait rehabilitation, Wall, C., Young, F., Moore, J., McMeekin, P., Walker, R., Godfrey, A. 15 Jul 2023, 2023 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks - Sensors and Systems for Digital Health (BSN) , Piscataway, US, IEEE
  • Bespoke fuzzy logic design to automate a better understanding of running gait analysis, Young, F., Stuart, S., McNicol, R., Morris, R., Downs, C., Coleman, M., Godfrey, A. 1 May 2023, In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Better informing everyday fall risk assessment: Experimental studies with contemporary technologies, Moore, J., Stuart, S., McMeekin, P., Walker, R., Godfrey, A. 22 Sep 2023, In: The Lancet
  • Brining it all together: wearable data fusion, Celik, Y., Godfrey, A. 17 Aug 2023, In: npj Digital Medicine
  • Considerations for integrating wearables into the everyday healthcare practice, Powell, D., Godfrey, A. 22 Apr 2023, In: npj Digital Medicine
  • Coproduction and Usability of a Smartphone App for Falls Reporting in Parkinson Disease, Wales, J., Moore, J., Naisby, J., Ratcliffe, N., Barry, G., Amjad, A., Godfrey, A., Standerline, G., Webster, E., Morris, R. 27 Jun 2023, In: Physical Therapy
  • Digital Fellowships: Inspiring use of contemporary technologies in applied healthcare, Salisbury, T., Deng, A., Burch, E., Godfrey, A. 26 Sep 2023, In: npj Digital Medicine
  • Enhancing Free-Living Fall Risk Assessment: Contextualizing Mobility Based IMU Data, Moore, J., Stuart, S., McMeekin, P., Walker, R., Celik, Y., Pointon, M., Godfrey, A. 12 Jan 2023, In: Sensors
  • Free-living Monitoring of Ambulatory Activity after Treatments for Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Cancers using an Accelerometer-based Wearable – A New Paradigm to Outcome Assessment in Musculoskeletal Oncology?, Furtado, S., Godfrey, A., Del Din, S., Rochester, L., Gerrand, C. 5 Jun 2023, In: Disability and Rehabilitation

  • Conor Wall Multimodality in healthcare: The role of AI and digital biomarkers (Multi-Bio) Start Date: 01/10/2022
  • Dylan Powell Exploring use of wearables in the management of mild traumatic brain injury Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 24/03/2023
  • Graham Coulby Personalised Environmental Monitoring Building of Occupants: Integration of Scalable Technologies Start Date: 12/04/2019 End Date: 23/12/2022
  • Jason Moore Deep Learning Approach to Video Based Terrain Classification Start Date: 01/10/2021
  • Fraser Young Beyond the lab: IoT-enabled multi-modal gait assessment Start Date: 01/09/2020
  • Dylan Powell WEARABLES AS OBJECTIVE TOOLS IN THE MONITORING OF SPORTS RELATED CONCUSSION Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 18/01/2022
  • Yunus Celik Instrumenting gait in neurological disorders: Multi-modal approach using wearables Start Date: 01/10/2019
  • Graham Coulby Monitoring Building Occupants for Personalised Health and Wellbeing: Integration of Scalable Technologies Start Date: 12/04/2019 End Date: 24/09/2021

  • Business Administration MBA August 31 2017
  • Electronics PhD November 06 2008
  • Engineering BEng June 28 2004
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA


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