CATCH academic to help transform health care
The Sheffield City Region has been announced as one of seven national Test Bed innovation centres to take part in a major new drive to modernise how the NHS delivers care. Test Beds are new collaborations between the NHS and innovators including the University of Sheffield which aim to harness technology to address some of the most complex issues facing patients and the health service.
22 February 2016
Inspiring CATCH Networking Lunch in the Diamond
The third CATCH Networking Lunch was held in the Diamond on Tuesday 26th January where more than 30 academics, researchers and professional services staff networked at the event.
26 January 2016
CATCH project wins Sheffield Smart Lab support
A CATCH project team was amongst the nine Sheffield Smart Lab winners that were announced at an awards ceremony in Sheffield. The CATCH project team that was successful was Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Ageing or NANA for short. NANA, led by CATCH academics Prof Arlene Astell and Dr Liz Williams, is a system that monitors the nutritional intake and cognitive function, mood and activity of older adults.
7 December 2015
CATCH Networking Lunch a huge success
The inaugural CATCH Networking Lunch was a great success on Friday 26 October. Approx 40 academics, researchers and professional services staff networked at the event.
28 October 2015
Marketing and Communications Officer
We have an exciting new position available to join the CATCH team. Are you a whizz with marketing and comms? Do you want to work on cool tech to help people live well and age well? Then this job is for you.
15 September 2015
Funded PhD Studentship Available
Spoken Language Dialogue Systems in Assistive Technology
7 July 2015
Inlife workshop
On Monday 22nd June the Sheffield site for IN-LIFE held a workshop to explore user needs regarding technologies in terms of service functionality and personal expectations.
30 June 2015
CATCH THAW PhD network launched
May 27th 2015 marked the launch of the Technology for Healthy Ageing and Wellbeing (THAW) PhD network, bringing together the general public with those in the NHS, councils, charities and industry to discuss if technology could be used to help older people to lead happier, healthier lives.
6 June 2015