Phone
number
+44 (0)121 204 3450
Email
c.d.buckingham@aston.ac.uk
Room number
MB 215A
Qualifications & Education
- BSc in Psychology (
Southampton University)
- MSc in Computer Science (
Birmingham University)
- PhD in Computer Science (
Birmingham University)
Research interests
- The nature and development of expertise
- Psychological classification and decision-making
- Reasoning with uncertainty
- Clinical decision making
- Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
Research projects
- Generating risk-prediction models from mental-health data (Responsible KEG Investigator)
- A decision support system for mental-health risk screening and assessment (Responsible KEG Investigator)
PhD Supervision
- Abu Ahmed (Investigation of psychological models of classification and their application to decision support systems)
- Jan Chircop (Concept learning within social organisations)
- Keith Priscott (Integrating knowledge structures by defining a shared ontology)
- Naomi Wrighton (Integration of Medical Ontologies, with particular emphasis on Ontologies
for Mental Health)
- Tom Richens (Enhancing WordNet-like lexical databases)
Selected publications
Buckingham, C.D. (2007). Improving mental health risk
assessment using web-based decision support. Health Care Risk
Report, 13(3), 17-18.
Buckingham, C.D., Ahmed, A., & Adams, A.E. (2007). Using
XML and XSLT for flexible elicitation of mental-health risk
knowledge. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine,
32(1), 65-81.
Adams, A. E., Buckingham, C.D., Lindenmayer, A., McKinlay, J.B.,
Link, C., Arber, A., & Marceau, L. (in press). Patient and Doctor
Gender Influences on Diagnosing Coronary Heart Disease in the UK and
the US. Sociology of Health and Illness.
Buckingham, C. D., Adams, A.E. & Mace, C. (in press). Cues and
knowledge structures used by mental-health professionals when making
risk assessments. Journal of Mental Health.
Buckingham, C.D. and Adams, A. (2006). Employing XML-based
technologies to elicit mental-health risk knowledge. In J. Bryant (Ed.), Current perspectives in healthcare computing 2006,
(p. 284-291). BCS HIF: Swindon.
Adams,A.E., Buckingham, C.D., Arber, S.L., McKinlay, J.B., Marceau,
L. & Link, C. (2006). The influence of patient age on clinical
decision-making about coronary heart disease in the US and the
UK. Ageing and Society, 26, 303-321.
Buckingham,C. D., Kearns,G., Brockie,S., Adams,A.E., & Nabney,
I.T. (2004).
Developing a Computer Decision Support System
for Mental Health Risk Screening and Assessment. In J. Bryant (Ed.),
Current perspectives in healthcare computing 2004,
(p. 189-194). BCS HIC: Swindon.
Buckingham, C.D. (2003). Can you help us develop a
mental-health decision-support system? The British Journal
of Healthcare Computing & Information Management, 20(10),
13.
Buckingham, C.D. (2002). Psychological cue use and implications
for a clinical decision support system. Medical Informatics and
the Internet in Medicine, 27(4), 237-251.
Buckingham, C.D. & Chan, T. (2002). Developing a mental-health
risk-screening tool. Risk management in mental health, 1-39.
Informa UK: London.
Buckingham, C.D. & Adams, A.E. (2000). Classifying
Clinical Decision Making: A Unifying Approach. Journal of
Advanced Nursing, 32(4), 981-989.
Buckingham, C.D. & Adams, A.E. (2000). Classifying
Clinical Decision Making: Interpreting Nursing Intuition,
Heuristics, and Medical Diagnosis. Journal of Advanced
Nursing, 32(4), 990-998.