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By Ruth Agbakoba

This is my first ever blog post for IHAWKES and I feel that it is quite a fitting time for me to reflect and share some of my personal experiences as a doctoral student.  I am a final year MRC DTP (Medical Research Council, Doctoral Training Programme) funded PhD Student evaluating the implementation of the Living It Up project (a digital health and wellbeing service) which is part of a £37 million UK wide programme called DALLAS. I am particularly interested in a) how innovative digital technologies and services can be used to enhance health and wellbeing and b) how such interventions can be routinized into people’s daily lives. The project is supported by NHS 24, Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT), the Scottish Government and Innovate UK (Department of Health). Continue Reading