Projects per year
Personal profile
SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
My research focuses on ensuring user privacy in future pervasive environments. Recent research is focused on: the use of privacy mediators to provide users with simple mental models or privacy boundaries (joint work with CMU); privacy aware personalisation and analytics for smart environments; developing new models of user consent based on delegation (joint work with Edinburgh) and more speculative work on understanding the future security and privacy risks in future augmented memory systems (joint work with USI, Switzerland). I also lead Lancaster’s involvement in exploring the use of Blockchain technologies in novel application domains including supporting new forms of charitable giving and providing patients with control over the use of their health data. We have a long history of research in privacy for pervasive computing dating back to the highly cited (427 cites) paper “Preserving privacy in environments with location-based applications”, G Myles, A Friday, N Davies - IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2003.
Keywords
- Computing, Communications and ICT
User-defined keywords
- Pervasive displays
- Mobile Computing
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Test Environment for a national network of TREs (TETREs)
Davies, N. (Principal Investigator), Davies, N. (Principal Investigator), Harding, M. (Co-Investigator) & Chandrabalan, V. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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DCQ: Cyber Security of Digital Medical Devices: Establishing UK Capability for a New Design and Development Route
Prince, D. (Co-Investigator), Wilson, E. (Co-Investigator), Hodges, S. (Co-Investigator), Davies, N. (Co-Investigator), Prince, D. (Co-Investigator), Wilson, E. (Co-Investigator), Davies, N. (Co-Investigator) & Reeves, N. (Principal Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research
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DSI: Lancaster and South Cumbria Secure Data Environment (LSC-SDE) - Research Infrastructure Engineer extension
Davies, N. (Principal Investigator) & Knight, J. (Co-Investigator)
1/05/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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TREvolution (Mike Harding)
Davies, N. (Principal Investigator), Harding, M. (Co-Investigator) & Chandrabalan, V. (Co-Investigator)
1/03/25 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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DSI: Late-stage commercialisation for time-of-flight neutron spectrometer
Joyce, M. (Co-Investigator), Davies, N. (Principal Investigator), Aspinall, M. (Co-Investigator) & Joyce, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/10/24 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
Research output
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The development of a blockchain-based business model simulator with an application to civic medical data management
Cunningham, J., Davies, N., Devaney, S., Harding, M., Holm, S., Neumann, V. & Ainsworth, J., 30/06/2025, In: Digital Business. 5, 1, 100112.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Mnemosyne - Supporting Reminiscence for Individuals with Dementia in Residential Care Settings
Baumann, A., Shaw, P., Trotter, L., Clinch, S. & Davies, N., 11/05/2024, Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Mueller, F. F., Kyburz, P., Williamson, J. R., Sas, C., Wilson, M. L., Toups Dugas, P. & Shklovski, I. (eds.). New York: ACM, 17 p. 217Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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The application of distributed autonomous organization governance mechanisms to civic medical data management
Cunningham, J., Davies, N., Devaney, S., Holm, S., Harding, M., Neumann, V. & Ainsworth, J., 31/12/2024, In: IET Blockchain. 4, S1, p. 507-525 19 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Examining public views on decentralised health data sharing
Neumann, V., Davidge, G., Harding, M., Cunningham, J., Davies, N., Devaney, S., Leeming, G., Holm, S. & Ainsworth, J., 2/03/2023, In: PLoS One. 18, 3 , p. e0282257 e0282257.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Unmet vaccination need among children under the age of five attending the paediatric emergency department: a cross-sectional study in a large UK district general hospital
Isba, R., Brennan, L., Egboko, F., Edge, R., Davies, N. & Knight, J., 27/06/2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 6, e072053.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
- 1 Hosting an academic visitor
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Jenny Bark
Cruickshank, L. (Host) & Davies, N. (Host)
6/05/2025Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Prizes
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Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM CHI 2020
Sas, C. (Recipient), Davies, N. (Recipient), Clinch, S. (Recipient), Shaw, P. (Recipient), Mikusz, M. (Recipient), Steeds, M. (Recipient) & Nohrer, L. (Recipient), 6/03/2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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Public displays that give you personalised info
Mikusz, M. & Davies, N. A. J.
8/02/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: TV Interview/Appearance
Datasets
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The evidence base for interprofessional education within health professions education: A protocol for an update review
Kitto, S. (Creator), Fantaye, A. W. (Creator), Davies, N. (Creator), McFadyen, A. K. (Creator), Rivera, J. (Creator), Birch, I. (Creator), Barr, H. (Creator), Fletcher, S. (Creator), Fournier, K. (Creator) & Xyrichis, A. (Creator), Taylor & Francis, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20702924.v1, https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_evidence_base_for_interprofessional_education_within_health_professions_education_A_protocol_for_an_update_review/20702924/1
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