{"id":14,"date":"2022-09-28T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:23:19","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Loughborough University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Gyuchan Thomas Jun<\/a><\/strong>
Professor of Sociotechnical System Design

Co-Principal Investigator and leads Work Package 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Georgina Cosma<\/a><\/strong>
<\/a>Professor of AI and Data Science

Co-leader Work-Package 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Panos Balatsoukas<\/a><\/strong>
Lecturer in Experience Design

Leads Work Package 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Cecilia Landa-Avila<\/a><\/strong>
Advisory (former Research Associate)

Work Package 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Angela Crawford<\/strong>
Project Manager

Oversight of the DECODE project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Emeka Abakasanga<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate

Work Package 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Rania Kousovista<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate

Work Package 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Alison Drewett<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate

Work Package 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Navjot Kaur<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate

Work package 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Ellie Harvey<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate

Work Package 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr Satheesh Gangadharan<\/strong>
Consultant Psychiatrist and Visiting Professor (Loughborough)

Satheesh is co-Principal investigator, and leads on patient and public involvement and expert panel consultation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Reza Kiani<\/strong>
Consultant Psychiatrist<\/em>


Reza co-leads on patient and public involvement and expert panel consultation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Amy<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Amy Wilkins<\/strong>
Speech and Language Therapist

Patient and Public involvement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sarah<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Rabbitte<\/strong>
Learning Disability Nurse

Patient and Public involvement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kings College London<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Vasa \u0106ur\u010din<\/a><\/strong>
Professor of Health Informatics

Co-lead Work Package 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amal Khanolkar<\/strong>
Research Associate<\/em>

Work Package 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Swansea University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Ashley<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor Ashley Akbari<\/a><\/strong>
Associate Professor Population Data Science Research<\/em>

Co-Principal Investigator for Work Package 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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University of Leicester<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Francesco<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor Francesco Zaccardi<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Clinical Fellow (Cardiometabolic Medicine), Clinical Epidemiologist and Medical Statistician<\/em>

Co-lead Work Package 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Michelle<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dr Michelle O\u2019Reilly<\/a><\/strong>
Associate Professor of Communication in Mental Health and Chartered Psychologist in Health

Lead Work Package 4 (qualitative research).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Kamlesh<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Professor<\/strong> Kamlesh Khunti<\/strong><\/a>
Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine

Kamlesh is mentor and advisor to the Principal Investigators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr Sharmin Shabnam<\/a><\/strong>
Research Associate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DeMontfort University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Chris<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chris Knifton<\/a><\/strong>
Senior Lecturer in Dementia, Learning Disability, Mental Health

Project Co-Investigator, in an advisory capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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University of Nottingham<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Neil Sinclair<\/a><\/strong>
Professor of Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Work Package 4 (AI usage scenarios), supporting the development of an instrument for assessing ethical concerns of usage scenarios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Plymouth University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Rohit Shankar<\/a><\/strong>
Professor of Neuropsychiatry

Advisor to the Principal Investigators.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Patient and Public Advisor \/ Co-ordinator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Placeholder<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Gill Huddleston<\/strong>
Public Co-applicant and Support for PPI programme<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sonal Kuchadia<\/strong>
Public Co-applicant and Support for PPI programme<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Patient and Public Group Members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Annie Bannister<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David<\/strong> Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Heidi Neville<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rashpal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Russell Lacey<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sonal Bhavsar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thomas Corden<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Bilson<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alix Glazier<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amar Jobanputra<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Farida Joossab<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kelly Tunley<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loughborough University Professor Gyuchan Thomas JunProfessor of Sociotechnical System Design Co-Principal Investigator and leads Work Package 4. Professor Georgina CosmaProfessor of AI and Data Science Co-leader Work-Package 2. Dr Panos BalatsoukasLecturer in Experience Design Leads Work Package 3. Dr Cecilia Landa-AvilaAdvisory (former Research Associate) Work Package 4. Angela CrawfordProject Manager Oversight of the DECODE project. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":247,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":100,"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decode-project.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}