Dr Judith Dineley
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Speech for mHealth Applications
Research interests
- Computer science
Biography
Judith (Jude) Dineley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Voice and Speech Processing for Health Lab, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics and CAMHS Digital Lab.
Holder of an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement award, her current focus is on the evaluation and responsible implementation of clinical AI scribes (ambient voice technology) in child and adolescent mental health services.
Jude has a complementary interest in the collection and analysis of speech for health applications and robust, acceptable methodologies for clinical research and practice.
She is part of the GLAD: Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Mental Health Goals team and the STORY project in EDIFY, investigating voice and language markers in eating disorders. She previously worked on the European IMI-funded mobile Health study, RADAR-CNS.
Jude is a medical physicist by training, with a PhD in Doppler ultrasound imaging from the University of Edinburgh and experience as a clinical scientist in radiation oncology.
Research interests
- Speech tools for digital health in research and clinical practice
- Ambient voice technology (AVT) / Clinical AI Scribes
- Mental health applications
- Robustness and reliability of speech recording and analysis
- Acceptability and engagement in speech recording
Expertise and Public Engagement
- Organising and Programme Committee, UK and Ireland Speech Workshop 2026
- AVT implementation, Scientific Support and Clinician Training, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement representative, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Maudsley Informatics Theme
- Member of AVID, AVT Professional Network, National AI & Mental Health Community of Practice & NHS AI Ambassadors Network
- Member of the NIHR-supported 2022 Mental Health Research Incubator GROW cohort
- Advisor (2023-present) and co-lead (2021–2022), International Speech Communication Association Mentoring Committee
- Experience as a science writer for specialist and lay media including Physics World and the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
- Reviewer, including for Computer, Speech & Language, Journal of Affective Disorders, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Interspeech, and Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Research
Voice and Speech Processing for Health
We combine expertise in applied and methodological research in signal processing and AI to analyse voice and spoken language for translational clinical research
Events
Patient and public involvement in health research: Learning and examples from more than a decade of practice
Patient and public involvement in health research: Learning and examples from more than a decade of practice
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Stories in Shape & Sound
Artistic Translations of Eating Disorder Experience and Research.
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It Depends: How Public Partners Can Shape Statistical and Data Research
It Depends: How Public Partners Can Shape Statistical and Data Research
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PPIE for Statistical Methodology Research – Can we do better?
PPIE for Statistical Methodology Research – Can we do better?
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Partnering for Change: AI predicting mental health - possible futures
Part of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health Festival 2022: Partnering for Change
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Research
Voice and Speech Processing for Health
We combine expertise in applied and methodological research in signal processing and AI to analyse voice and spoken language for translational clinical research
Events
Patient and public involvement in health research: Learning and examples from more than a decade of practice
Patient and public involvement in health research: Learning and examples from more than a decade of practice
Please note: this event has passed.
Stories in Shape & Sound
Artistic Translations of Eating Disorder Experience and Research.
Please note: this event has passed.
It Depends: How Public Partners Can Shape Statistical and Data Research
It Depends: How Public Partners Can Shape Statistical and Data Research
Please note: this event has passed.
PPIE for Statistical Methodology Research – Can we do better?
PPIE for Statistical Methodology Research – Can we do better?
Please note: this event has passed.
Partnering for Change: AI predicting mental health - possible futures
Part of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health Festival 2022: Partnering for Change
Please note: this event has passed.