Emilene welcomes applications for doctoral studies related to inclusive digital design, and inclusive services and interactions, as well as design for healthy ageing. 

Current PhD supervisions

  • Ms Aishat Usman-Mamudu; Inclusive Digital Design in Health: Interfaces and Intersectionality part of the ‘Digital Communities and Inclusion’ - Doctoral Cluster scholarship
  • Mr Animesh Bondre – Designing and Implementing Ethical and Effective AI solutions for Healthcare Transformation - DECODE scholarship
  • Ms Zhuoning Fu: Digital Interventions for Mult-morbidity Self-Management: A User Centred Design Approach to Understand Older Adults' Values - SDCA Big Splash Scholarship
  • Ms Jikun Yin: Enhancing Cybersecurity Awareness across Older Adults with Limited Essential Digital Skills for Life – CSC Scholarship
  • Ms Nariman Lotfi: The Integration of Bio-inspiration as a Trans-disciplinary Education method for Industrial Design undergraduate students
  • Ms Bernadette Douglas Informal Cares of Frail Older Patients’ Participation in Hospital Information and Communication Beyond the In-Service Period

Completed PhD supervisions

  • Mr Jiayin Guan: An intervention model to motivate older adults to participate in physical activity – CSC Scholarship.
  • Ms Petra Salaric: Intimacy-building in online communication environments: Towards a design for wellbeing approach for early stages of relationships - SDCA Big Splash Scholarship
  • Paula Poiet (co-supervised with Dr Vania Valente, UNESP) – CAPES Scholarship.