Dr Liz Sillence

Liz is an eHealth researcher, examining psychological aspects of users’ online interactions around eHealth information. She works at the intersection of psychology and digital technology and her research has a strong focus on trust and identity. She seeks to understand how people interact with digital information and advice and how they use it to inform their health decision-making and improve their wellbeing. There is a strong practical element to her research, in which she strives to see her findings applied to positive effect in the design and development of online resources for patients.  

Understanding the interaction between users and their digital information is at the heart of Liz's research and the application of psychology to risky informational settings has allowed her to examine trust, identity and wellbeing around digital information management in relation to security and the hoarding of digital data.

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• AcademAI: Investigating AI Usage, Attitudes, and Literacy in Higher Education and Research, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D. 19 May 2025, In: Journal of Educational Technology Systems
• A Model of Trust in Online COVID-19 Information and Advice: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study, Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D., Moss, M., Briggs, P. 13 Feb 2025, In: JMIR Infodemiology
• Evaluating mobile apps for sun protection: content analysis and user preferences in a two-part study, Rodrigues, A., Doughty, F., Charlton, C., Woodhouse, S., Sillence, E. 27 Jan 2025, In: Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
• Exploring Alternative Socio-Technical Systems for Careful Data Work in Recovery Contexts, Claisse, C., Osborne, A., Sillence, E., Glascott, A., Cameron, A., Durrant, A. 25 Apr 2025, CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, United States, ACM
• Menopause apps: personal health tracking, empowerment and epistemic injustice, Sillence, E., Osborne, A., Kemp, E., McKellar, K. 27 Apr 2025, In: Digital Health
• Situation Critical: Intensive Cybersecurity Care Needed, Coventry, L., Sillence, E., Brown, R., Branley-Bell, D., Mari, P., Saverio, C., Casaroli, A., Rizzoni, F., Magalini, S. 13 Mar 2025, Socio-Technical Aspects in Security - 12th International Workshop, STAST 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
• AcademAI: Investigating AI Usage, Attitudes, and Literacy in Higher Education and Research, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D. 20 Aug 2024
• A Model of Trust in Online COVID-19 Information and Advice: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study, Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D., Moss, M., Briggs, P. 9 Apr 2024
• ‘Chugging along, plugging in and out of it’:: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery, Claisse, C., Durrant, A., Branley-Bell, D., Sillence, E., Glascott, A., Cameron, A. 1 May 2024, In: Social Science & Medicine
• Digital accumulation behaviours and information management in the workplace: exploring the tensions between digital data hoarding, organisational culture and policy, McKellar, K., Sillence, E., Neave, N., Briggs, P. 25 Apr 2024, In: Behaviour and Information Technology

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• Northern Health Futures Hub, Wilson, R. (Principal Investigator), Sillence, L. (Co Investigator), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, 01/10/23 - 30/09/26, £256,044.00

• Computer Studies PhD December 12 2003
• Design Studies MSc September 01 1998