Dr Andy Skinner
BEng(Essex), BSc(Bristol), PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
I'm currently Digital Projects Lead for the Cancer Rersearch UK funded Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme at the University of Bristol. I'm responsible for developing a portfolio of projects that use emerging wearable and sensor technologies in novel ways to improve risk reduction, early detection and treatment optimisation in cancer.
I'm also part of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) at the University of Bristol, where I have an interest in novel approaches to digital phenotyping and digital health.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
MRC: Innovating behaviour & health surveillance for cardiovascular disease prevention in Malaysia.
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/01/2020 to 31/12/2023
MRC: Innovating behaviour & health surveillance for cardiovascular disease prevention in Malaysia
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
31/12/2019 to 31/12/2022
BBSRC FTMA - CamCog Secondment (MRC IEU)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/04/2018 to 14/12/2018
HDR UK Fellowship: Assessing the feasibility of using smartwatches for low burden, high temporal density capture of longitudinal health data
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
15/02/2018 to 14/02/2021
IEU CLOSER Methodological Innovations
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/09/2016 to 30/09/2017
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2012Visual search for expressions and anti-expressions
Visual Cognition
Nine-Year-Old Children Use Norm-Based Coding to Visually Represent Facial Expression
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
The expressions of strangers: Our identity-independent representation of facial expression
Journal of Vision
Anti-expression aftereffects reveal prototype-referenced coding of facial expressions
Psychological Science
Recent publications
02/03/2025Smartwatch-based Ecological Momentary Assessment for high temporal density longitudinal measurement of alcohol use (‘AlcoWatch’)
JMIR Formative Research
Accelerometer-measured 24-hour movement behaviours over 7 days in Malaysian children and adolescents
PLoS ONE
Presenting and Evaluating a Smartwatch-Based Intervention for Smoking Relapse (StopWatch)
JMIR Formative Research
AlcoWatch - Exploring the feasibility of using smartwatch-based Ecological Momentary Assessment for high temporal density longitudinal measurement of alcohol use
AlcoWatch - Exploring the feasibility of using smartwatch-based Ecological Momentary Assessment for high temporal density longitudinal measurement of alcohol use
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a smartwatch-based smoking relapse intervention ('StopWatch')
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a smartwatch-based smoking relapse intervention ('StopWatch')
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School of Psychological Science
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Professor Angela Attwood
Professor of Psychological Science
School of Psychological Science
Mr Chris Stone
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School of Psychological Science