We warmly welcome our new IMH Co-Director, Shauna Concannon.
The IMH is delighted to announce the appointment of a new IMH Co-Director, Dr Shauna Concannon, who is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science.
Shauna brings a wealth of research experience to the role and a passion for collaborative, interdisciplinary enquiry.
Shauna will start officially in this new role on 1 September 2026, working alongside IMH Co-Director Prof Katrin Wehling-Giorgi and the IMH Executive.
We are at a moment of significant change: health and wellbeing are increasingly shaped by digital and AI-driven systems, and there is a growing need to ensure that these developments remain grounded in human experience and social context. I look forward to working with the IMH community to build on its strengths, supporting early career researchers and developing new, genuine transdisciplinary approaches to these emerging challenges.
About Shauna Concannon
Dr Shauna Concannon is an interdisciplinary researcher committed to inclusive, pluralistic and socially responsible approaches to technology and health. Working across medical humanities, AI ethics, digital humanities and computational social science, Shauna's research centres on how technologies mediate care, communication and knowledge, with a particular focus on health, wellbeing, lived experience and epistemic justice.
Bringing together humanistic and computational methods, Shauna studies the social and ethical dimensions of AI systems and develops participatory approaches for their design and evaluation. Prior research has developed methods for analysing health narratives and lived experience at scale, and examined how people seek and make sense of health information in conditions of uncertainty. Current work centres on AI in adult social care and the experiences of people living with complex chronic conditions navigating AI-mediated health environments.
As Co-lead of the EquiAI network and AI lead for the UKRI/Health Foundation IMPACT Network on AI in Adult Social Care, Shauna works to ensure that critical, humanistic perspectives shape how AI is designed and deployed in health and care settings. Shauna is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Digital Humanities and Director of EDI in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University.
Explore Shauan Concannon's research and publications.
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