Professor Peter Bath
BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor of Health Informatics
Department: Information School
Faculty: Social Sciences
Research expertise
Health informatics and applications of artificial intelligence and data mining
Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, families, carers and the general public
Analysing health information in relation to health and wellbeing
Contact
Telephone: +44 114 222 2636
Email: p.a.bath@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I have been interested in information science and health informatics for 23 years. My interest in these areas developed at the end of my first degree in applied biology, when I came to Sheffield to study for my MSc in information studies in the then Department of Information Studies.
At the end of the MSc, I studied for my PhD in chemical structure handling under the supervision of Professor Peter Willett and Dr Frank Allen (Cambridge). I was appointed Research Fellow (1994-1996), then Lecturer (1996-2000), in Information Science in the Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) at the University of Sheffield, which had been set up by Professor Ian Philp in 1994.
I re-joined the Department of Information Studies in 2000, when I was appointed Lecturer in Health Informatics to set up the new MSc in Health Informatics programme and became Head of the Health Informatics Research Group. I was appointed Professor of Health Informatics in the Information School in 2013.