Dr Siobhán O'Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London. She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at Western University, Canada and is a Liaison to the United Nations (UN) for Sigma Nursing.

Dr O'Connor has a multidisciplinary background with bachelor degrees in nursing and information systems, completing her PhD in health informatics, and has nearly 20 years combined experience in industry, clinical practice, and higher education. She also served as an external advisor on the World Health Organization (WHO) State of the World's Nursing report 2025 providing recommendations on digital nursing education and practice. 

Email: [email protected]

Her research focuses on co-designing, implementing and evaluating technologies in healthcare, with a particular interest in mobile health and other digital innovations that can support patient self-management. She also leads the AI Nurses Network a clinical research network on artificial intelligence (AI) in nursing. www.ai-nurses.com

Dr O'Connor has received nmerous grants for digital health (eHealth) research as a Principal Investigator, co-PI, and co-investigator, from a variety of national and international funders such as the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council (MRC), Innovate UK, the Burdett Trust for Nursing, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Nursing, Sigma Nursing, and the US-UK Fulbright Commission. In 2018, she won a RCN Foundation Impact award for research on the history of nursing informatics in the UK and in 2022 received an Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar Award from Sigma Nursing due to her active scholarship in the Phi Mu chapter in England. 

Dr O’Connor has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles including empirical studies, systematic and literature reviews, discussion and editorials, and book chapters, along with numerous blogs, newspaper, and magazine articles. She supervises Masters and PhD students interested in patient focused topics in clinical informatics such as mobile health (health apps), wearable devices, telehealth or telecare, online or web based health services (including social media), smarthomes and assisted living technologies, robotics, virtual or augmented reality, and artificial intelligence.

Current research projects:

• AI Nurses Network - a clinical research network on artificial intelligence in nursing funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing. www.ai-nurses.com
• COLLATE - co-creating an online methods toolkit for digital health co-design (NIHR206172). www.digitalhealthcodesign.co.uk
• NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award conducting a realist review and realist evaluation of participatory methods to tailor implementation strategies for digital diabetes interventions (NIHR305124). 
• KHP's Digital Health Hub - an accessible national multidisciplinary resource supporting the training, co-creation, translation and the acceleration of digital health technologies funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). www.kingshealthpartners.org/our-work/digital-health-and-data-sciences/digital-health-hub
• OpenPREGnosis: Developing an Open Algorithm to Identify Pregnancy Episodes and Outcomes in National Electronic Health Records (NIHR206877). https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR206877
• NIHR Undergraduate Internship Programme (NIHR305950).

Current PhD students:

• Student: Syeda Taqya Amna Arslan, Topic: Examining machine learning in a digital physical activity intervention to predict and prevent falls in older adults: a mixed methods feasibility study , Funding: MRC Doctoral Training Partnership 2023
• Student: Shuruq Alotibi, Topic: Co-designing and testing an online digital exercise programme with older people living in Saudi Arabia to improve physical health, Funding: Government scholarship
• Student: Andi Permana, Topic: Exploring virtual journal clubs to educate critical care nurses in Indonesia about evidence based practice, Funding: Government scholarship
• Student: Yangyang Dong, Topic: Using social media to help emergency nurses in China continue their professional development, Funding: King's-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme 2023