Dr Christopher Buckingham

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.