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Dilisha Patel
Research Fellow
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Room: 2.06
UCLIC, University College London
66 - 72 Gower Street
London, WC1E 6EA
United Kingdom
Dilisha is a Social Researcher focusing on Disability Justice at the GDI Hub. She aspires for an equitable world for all and drives this by working with marginalised populations, to provide them with useful, usable and reliable tools to support themselves and their communities. Dilisha has over 10 years of research experience in health, social care and digital health and has mainly uses qualitative methods.
Brief biography
PhD Thesis: Understanding men's information seeking and sensemaking journey's in order to explore how technology can support men who experience fertility problems.
Previously a Research Associate in Reproductive Health at the Institute for Women's Health, UCL.
Research Publications
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| Dilisha Patel, S Pendse, Choudhury M De, S Dsane, KP Kruzan, N Kumar, Aneesha Singh, Mark Warner | Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience | 2022 | CSCW '22: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Conference paper (text) |
| I Rai, Dilisha Patel, Aneesha Singh | "It's come around way too quickly!" Can technology help parents provide support during menarche? | 2022 | DIS 2022, Conference paper (text) |
| Dilisha Patel | Online Health Communities as a resource for collective sensemaking for men who experience fertility difficulty | 2021 | THE 24TH ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING, Conference paper (text) |
| G Barrett, JA Hall, B Howden, Dilisha Patel, J Shawe, J Stephenson | Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of a Version of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy for Women’s Partners | 2020 | International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health, Journal article |
| B Grace, S Tothill, P Zadeh, Dilisha Patel | Let’s talk about it: exploring attitudes towards engagement and open discussion of (in)fertility and reproductive heath on social media | 2020 | ESHRE 2020, Conference abstract/presentation slides, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| A Jawad, Dilisha Patel, N Brima, J Stephenson | Alcohol, smoking, folic acid and multivitamin use among women attending maternity care in London: a cross-sectional study | 2019 | Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, Journal article |
| Dilisha Patel, Ann Blandford, J Stephenson, J Shawe | Understanding The Use Of Social Technologies During A Life Transition: Men's Experience with Fertility Problems | 2019 | 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Conference paper (text), Austin, TX, USA |
| Dilisha Patel, Ann Blandford, Mark Warner, J Shawe, J Stephenson | "I feel like only half a man": Online Forums as a Resource for Finding a "New Normal" for Men Experiencing Fertility Issues | 2019 | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Journal article |
| J Shawe, Dilisha Patel, M Joy, B Howden, G Barrett, J Stephenson | Preparation for fatherhood: A survey of men's preconception health knowledge and behaviour in England. | 2019 | PLoS One, Journal article |
| Dilisha Patel | What are men’s user requirements towards digital health interventions whilst preparing for conception? | 2018 | 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction., Conference paper (text), Oslo, Norway |
| M Barker, SU Dombrowski, T Colbourn, CHD Fall, NM Kriznik, WT Lawrence, SA Norris, G Ngaiza, Dilisha Patel, J Skordis-Worrall | Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception | 2018 | The Lancet, Journal article |
| Dilisha Patel, Ann Blandford, J Stephenson | So you're planning a baby?: a review of preconception care apps | 2018 | MobileHCI '18, Conference paper (text), Barcelona |
| O Ojukwu, Dilisha Patel, J Stephenson, B Howden, J Shawe | General practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and views of providing preconception care: a qualitative investigation. | 2016 | Upsala journal of medical sciences, Journal article |
| G Barrett, J Shawe, B Howden, Dilisha Patel, O Ojukwu, P Pandya, J Stephenson | Why do women invest in pre-pregnancy health and care? A qualitative investigation with women attending maternity services | 2015 | BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, Journal article |
| G Barrett, J Shawe, B Howden, Dilisha Patel, O Ojukwu, P Pandya, J Stephenson | Why do women invest in pre-pregnancy health and care? A qualitative investigation with women attending maternity services | 2015 | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Journal article |
| J Stephenson, Dilisha Patel, G Barrett, B Howden, A Copas, O Ojukwu, P Pandya, J Shawe | How do women prepare for pregnancy? Preconception experiences of women attending antenatal services and views of health professionals. | 2014 | PLoS One, Journal article |
| Dilisha Patel | Online Information-Seeking Behaviours of Men Experiencing Fertility Difficulties | 1900 | Thesis / Dissertation |